--- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Simon Slater wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. When booting sendmail takes
> > a very long time to start. This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 on
> > a new laptop. I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far. Done!
> > Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is ... finished
> > in ... 4 minutes. The rest boots quite quickly, less than 2 minutes for
> > everything else. All mail is done through another box. This is not a
> > problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea and get a slice of cake.
> >
>
> If you ever get tired of the opportunity to have morning tea and a
> natter while the computer gets started, you might get around to checking
> that networking is starting properly, you have fully functioning DNS or
> an alternative.
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
I have had that problem, too. It seems that sendmail requires a complete
hostname (with a domain) and sort of sits on its hands for a long time
before timing out and continuing.
So in my case, I named the computer "name.localdomain", and updated the entry
in /etc/hosts for my machine to
127.0.0.1 name.localdomain name localhost.localdomain localhost
where the last 3 items are aliases and thus will work for probably any
program's needs.
--bc
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