Re: System Pauses During Boot At Sendmail And Sm-client Processes--Why?

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:20:20 -0500

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:45:37 +0000, Richard Huelbig wrote:

> I noticed that when I into RedHat 9, and the various processes that are
> starting are listed to the screen, the boot process pauses for about a
> minute when the Sendmail process is listed, and then for about another
> minute when the Sm-client process is listed. Eventually both processes
> start successfully.

I believe that sendmail is trying to resolve a hostname, perhaps your
own machine name or that of your SMTP host. Make sure that the name
resolution services given in "/etc/nsswitch.conf" are up and active
before the sendmail service is started.

Cheers!