On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:05:55 +0100 "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has anyone else experienced an exctreeeemely slow startup for sendmail > and sm-client? > > I checked the archives for this list, but couldn't find it. > > What could I do to find out what the problem is? > check your maillog in /var/log/ anything similar to this in there: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov 17 04:02:43 Turtle sendmail[4717]: My unqualified host name (Turtle) unknown; sleeping for retry Nov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: unable to qualify my own domain name (Turtle) -- using short name Nov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: hAHC37RE004501: from=root, size=2273, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200311171203.hAHC37RE004501@Turtle>, relay=root@localhostNov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: hAHHLS433: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32273, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- make sure of a few things, check /etc/sysconfig/network it should have a line like this: HOSTNAME=turtle.localdomain check /etc/hosts for lines like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 turtle.localdomain turtle Note the . in the hostnames, sendmail is picky about seeing a domain (aliases ok) Check /etc/hosts.allow if you have tcpwrappers on sendmail : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain By default RH configures sendmail to only accept connections from localhost so any changing of things throws it for a loop. good luck.
