sendmail/strace hanging

[Matthew Seaman]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:08:39PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:

> Stopping sendmail with `sh /etc/rc.sendmail stop` works quickly.  Starting it
> takes about 3min.   Both sendmail-submit and sendmail-clientmqueue take a
> while before moving.  Booting also has this delay.

In the interests of eliminating the obvious: you have confirmed that
this is not some sort of DNS timeout?  Delays of that length on
starting up sendmail are usually due to waiting out the DNS timeouts.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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