Re: [SLUG] Sendmail taking soooooooooooo long to start.

From: Jason Copenhaver (jcopenha@typedef.org)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 11:09:02 EDT


check your nsswitch.conf file( in /etc somewhere) and make sure that dns
lookups go to file before they go to your DNS

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Mike Manchester wrote:

> Hi
> I'm having trouble with sendmail hanging when ever it's started. I guess
> hanging isn't really the right word as it does come back after a long
> time maybe greater than a min. I'm not running a DNS but I do have a
> host file with the follwing information.
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.0.5 cpt
> 192.168.0.2 dingy
> 192.168.0.3 fstmate
> 192.168.0.4 swabbie
> 192.168.0.1 router
>
> For what I have read on the net it appears to be a hostname problem. But
> I don't know what else to try.
>
> thanks for any help on this.
> Mike
>
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