[wplug] Redhat 9 Slow starting - sendmail / sm-client

[Vanco, Don]

You have conflicting/duplicate IPs/Aliases
 
Possible solutions include:
Remove the second line in /etc/hosts
or
Remove the second  and fourth lines in /etc/hosts and add an alias butanone
to the first line.
 
You should be configuring your network (and hostname / hosts) with
redhat-config-network until you have a better understanding of what you're
doing with networking.
 
It has been my experience in the past that simply rearranging the first line
in /etc/hosts to read:
127.0.0.1        localhost     localhost.localdomain   
....resolves the slow startup (it is not, in fact, "hung") issue with
sendmail, yet no one has ever been able to explain to me why this might
work.  This has been true since RH6.2
 
HTH
Don

-----Original Message----- 
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org on behalf of Eric Peterson 
Sent: Tue 12/9/2003 1:06 AM 
To: wplug at wplug.org 
Cc: 
Subject: [wplug] Redhat 9 Slow starting - sendmail / sm-client



I read the thread,
http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2003-November/008527.html
<http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2003-November/008527.html> 

I am having similar problems with sendmail hanging on boot.  The Linux box
(butanone) runs RH9(shrike) and sits behind a router with an XP box
(acetone).  The Redhat installation guide simply says in this situation to
make sure /etc/hosts has a line in it that it already does (line 1 as
follows)

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain   localhost
127.0.0.1        butanone
192.168.1.100    acetone
192.168.1.101    butanone
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search charterpipeline.net
nameserver 66.215.64.14
nameserver 24.205.1.14
nameserver 24.205.192.61
#

Suggestions (I can surely rtfm if someone can point me in the right
direction)?

Thanks!

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