Rob Yale wrote:
>
> When my system boots, it pauses on sendmail for an inordinately long time.
> Could this have something to do with name resolution, and if so, how do I
> resolve it? Another factor that I was also wondering about is that eth0
> initially fails; presumably because pcmcia hasn't loaded yet. I tried
> changing the load order in rc3.d but it still seems to suffer from a delayed
> initialization. Any thoughts?
Assuming you still need sendmail, which you probably don't...
I also had this problem a couple times, spent some time hunting it down,
and came up with solutions. For most people, as was mentioned, i think
the culpret is /etc/resolv.conf. Recently on one of my two home
networked RH6.2 boxes, one had that delay when starting sendmail and the
other didn't. They have identical resolv.conf files so I was a bit
confused. Eventually I traced it to a difference in /etc/hosts.
The one without the delay has an entry like
127.0.0.1 computer_name localhost localhost.localdomain
and the one with the delay had something like
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.20.30.40 computer_name
I changed that to be like the other one and it worked fine. :-)
So make sure localhost.localdomain is pointing to 127.0.0.1
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