Am Mi, den 26.11.2003 schrieb A.J. Bonnema um 02:51: > Vincent wrote: > > 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. > > Thank you very much. That did it. Your precise description made it very > clear what was wrong: > > I had one entry (not 127.0.0.1) containing a name without a . (no > domain) which probably was the cause. Changing that to a " > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx name.domain name" made sendmail and sm-client extremely > fast in startup. Hopefully you have not deleted the localhost entry in /etc/hosts, otherwise sendmail and some other applications will not work properly. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost has to be there in every case > Thanks again! > > Guus. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
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