Bob Kinney wrote:
--- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Kinney wrote:
--- 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.
except sending mail to other (especially remote) that expect the sender
to comply with appropriate RFCs. If, on connecting to your sendmail
using telnet, it announces itself as "localhost" then it's broken.
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Cheers
John
[bob@otis ~]$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 otis.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.1/8.14.1; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:51:51
-0600
HELO
501 5.0.0 HELO requires domain address
The point is understood if you are running a public mail service, but I
don't think mine's "broken."
In the context of interacting with public mail services, it is indeed
broken, because it does not identify itself properly, and therefore
cannot send email to servers that insist on RFC compliance.
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Cheers
John
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