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

[Keir Josephson]

You may also want to avoid having your hostname resolve to the loopback 
address, altogether. I've seen this cause many strange problems with 
software that tries to reverse the local host.

-Keir

On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:06 AM, Eric Peterson wrote:

> I read the thread,
> 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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