[2685] in RedHat Linux List
Re: sendmail delay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Tue Nov 5 00:11:14 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:32:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
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Yup.
Probably configured to be looking for a gateway and or DNS server when
there isn't one. Is there ?
I can't imagine such a machine taking so long to get started for any
other reason.
My 386/40 even goes faster. It takes awhile, hang on, I'll reboot it and
watch...
(4mins later...)
Hmn. My sendmail started in a matter of a couple of seconds.
But then, I may have it configured properly with respect to networking.
( Not because I know all this stuff, but because it mostly works by
default. I only look at things when they're broke, and I bring
reference materials, the phone, and all you out in Email-land with me. )
The things I can think of, sendmail will pause and rebuild a compiled
aliases file, if I'm not mistaken, if it needs to, and it will attempt to
process its queue.
Do you have an aliases file of any considerable size ?
Low speed, ISDN or less Inter/ranet connection ?
Other than that, it seems like a network thing. (But I'm flying blind...)
Hope this helps.
If this doesn't do it, I know a couple of sendmail guru's and I have the
big huge book...
THX
-AEF
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Kirill Shtengel wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> I have a question concerning a noticable delay (> 1 min)
> when sendmail daemon starts.
> It is certainly not a serious problem, although a quite
> annoying one.
> My machine is a stand-alone Compaq 486DX4-100, however it's not my
> computer's specific problem: a friend of mine with Dell Pentium-100
> has the very same problem.
> It's not RH4.0 specific either: I had 3.0.3 before, and my friend had
> 2.0 - same thing. It appears to be RedHat specific though: my other
> frienduses slackware and does not see this behaviour at all.
> All three computers are stand-alone with PPP used for the internet
> connections. I was thinking of completely shutting sendmail down, but
> some programs e-mail to root to report problems (Accel-X for example).
>
> Here are the symptoms: after reprting on-screen: "Starting sendmail"
> the computer reads from the HD for about a second or two and then
> gives no indication of life for about a minute. Then it briefly reads
> something from the HD and dies again. 10-15 seconds later it finally
> wakes up and continues with a normal boot-up.
> We guessed that it looks for some nonexistant network connection or
> something like this, but we are not certain.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Cheers,
> kirill Shtengel
>
>
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