[2731] in RedHat Linux List
Re: sendmail delay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Tue Nov 5 08:44:49 1996
To: Hal DeVore <hdevore@crow.bmc.com>
cc: Kirill Shtengel <kirill@ucla.edu>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:03:53 CST."
<199611050303.VAA02633@dimebox.bmc.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 08:43:13 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> sendmail wants to talk to a nameserver when it starts up. I forget why but
> it does. You have a few choices.
>
> 1) live with it. Consider it an exercise in patience building.
> 2) hack the sendmail startup script to start sendmail in the background
> 3) remove the symlinks that start sendmail (only if you are ALWAYS a
> standalone machine, sendmail does nothing useful for standalone machines).
> 4) replace sendmail with something else, others have suggested qmail
> 5) set up your machine as a caching nameserver
>
I also have a standalone machine at home (with ReDHat 2.1) , and
sendmail starts up with no problem. What if he tries to put all the
aliases for his machine in /etc/sendmail.cw?
I have this there
# sendmail.cw - include all aliases for your machine here.
moni.msci.memphis.edu
wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu
wierdlmpc
moni
localhost
Mate
M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
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