From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Thu 02 Aug 2001 - 12:57:47 IST
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, jac1 wrote:
> hi,
> sendmail takes ages to start up. I have looked at the logs and this is a
> snippet of what it says:
>
> Aug 2 11:52:28 ie-cor-d008316 sendmail[22800]: My unqualified host name
> (ie-cor-d008316) unknown; sleeping for retry
does that not explain it? it can't resolve ie-cor-d008316, and it
sleeps and retries till eventually it gives up.
either set up DNS or put:
<my-ip> ie-cor-d008316.foo.dom.bar ie-cor-d008316
in /etc/hosts
--paulj
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