Re: Disabling sendmail, for slow boot
From: Koskirotta (juha_petaja_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/28/03
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Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:33:20 +0300
Yes -- less than optimum dns configuration defenitely does the trick.
I have a good enough reason to run delibrately misconfigured domain
(in the internal network) and alas sendmail takes ages to start.
would I use hostname.domainname pair sendmail would start ok.
(tried and tested)
-J-
On the other hand. When dealing with network anything ffron slow dns
response, faulty network component or misconfigured interface has the
same symptoms.
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:59:00 GMT, David Bolton
<angoraspruce@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Martin Kaeske <Martin.Kaeske@Stud.TU-Ilmenau.de> wrote:
>> Arctic Wolf <SpamShield-ArcticWolf@mail.com> wrote:
>>> My boot sequence was slow because of sendmail, and I did some search to
>[snip]
>> But i think you should repair your DNS/sendmail instead. The slow startup
>> is perhaps caused by a failing reverse-lookup of your IP-Address.
>>
>
>I'd like to second the opinion that killing sendmail is merely treating the
>symptom. Twice I've had a poorly configured Internet interface where the first
>and most obvious symptom was boot hanging for a few minutes on ntpdate and then
>on sendmail. Fixing the poor configuration solved my slow boot, and it spared
>me the headaches of further complications. It also forced me to get a better
>handle on how to configure a network.
>
>Best regards,
>David
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