sendmail is trying to do a DNS lookup on its own name and the IP
interfaces on the box that it is trying to listen on.
/etc/hosts is the file you probably want to fiddle with, at least
initially to stop the timeouts. Make sure there is an entry in
there for localhost, then for each IP interface on your box.
But do you *really* need sendmail running? You only need a mail
daemon listening on port 25 if you are a mail server accepting email
from elsewhere (usually via MX records in the DNS).
On Fri Aug 11 2000 at 13:32, "Ed.Q.Bridges" wrote:
> for some reason i haven't been able to determine,
> when init is running it's startup scripts it freezes
> on the start script for sendmail.
>
> initlog is displaying this:
> Aug 11 13:16:23 lazy sendmail[1713]: My unqualified host name (lazy) unknown;
>sleeping for retry
>
> lazy is the hostname of the machine, i.e. both of these display:
> bash$ cat /etc/HOSTNAME
> lazy
FQDNs (fully qualified domain names) are probably better.
> bash$ hostname
> lazy
>
> this is a RH6.2 machine:
> bash$ uname -a
> Linux lazy 2.2.16 #19 Thu Jul 27 13:06:58 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
>
> the machine basically locks up during boot, forcing a cold
> restart (i guess cause it keeps "sleeping for retry" whatever
> that means :) ).
It is trying to do DNS lookups, but failing...
Cheers
Tony
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