sendmail

[CokeOnIce]

RH 6.1

Boot

When Linux is trying to start sendmail it seems to take forever. Can anyone tell me why? I'll bet you can! What do I need to do to get it to start faster?

[PLBlaze]

What you need to do is to use the search option on these forums :D ... but seriously define a name for your host in /etc/hosts eg. mybox 192.168.0.1 or even localhost 127.0.0.1 should do.

Upon startup sendmail looks up it's host name and if it does not resolve or exist then sendmail takes time to execute and properly startup...it would be a good idea to go thru logs under /var/log and see what's exactly failing and why.Hope this helps.