On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 15:33 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I have noticed that boot has begun to take a long time and it is especially the > start of sendmail. I find the following in the maillog file: > > > Sep 21 16:29:47 epohost sendmail[3124]: My unqualified host name (epohost) unknown; sleeping for retry > > Sep 21 16:30:47 epohost sendmail[3124]: unable to qualify my own domain name (epohost) -- using short name It wants to be able to resolve its own name and reverse-resolve the IP addresses of the interfaces it listens on. If you don't have working DNS for these, put them in your hosts file. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
