Re: sendmail at boot

[Pete Peterson <rep genrad com>]

> after recompiling my kernel with network support and setting up
> networking, sendmail takes ~3min to startup at boot.  What have i done
> wrong?  I don't get any error messages.  I don't use mail on the machine
> at the moment.  This is the second machine this has happened on.
> 
> * Rodney Hendricks                      *
> * <rhendrix tartarus uwa edu au>        *

I recall seeing this behaviour when networking was set up but there was no
network attached or no functioning name-server.  I'm not sure which was the
determining factor (I suspect DNS).  At any rate, the problem vanishes when
you have an actual functioning network connection *AND* a functioning,
connected name-server.

In the meantime, you can temporarily modify the startups so as not to start
sendmail (rc2.d .. rc5.d).

        pete peterson
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