At 03:10 AM 12/13/98 -0600, Christian B. Monkman wrote:
>> I have the same problem. It started when I upgraded to the latest diald.
>> Sendmail should not be the culprit since sendmail has nothing to deliver.
>> Also, a netstat does not reveal any connection or interesting status.
>
>When sendmail starts up it tries to discover it's own domain name and
>resolve it to an IP address. Depending on sendmail's configuration, it can
>be happy with a simple entry in /etc/hosts, but sometimes it wants a DNS
>lookup. The DNS lookup would almost certainly bring up diald and would be
>hard to filter out without limiting diald's usefulness. Try starting
>the diald service after sendmail.
During boot up starting 'diald' after 'sendmail' did the trick. I deleted
the [SK]20diald links and created '[SK]35diald links forcing diald to start
after sendmail scripts ([SK]20sendmail).
Thanks for the suggestion.
-- Arun Khan
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