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

[Eric Peterson]

> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Vanco, Don
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:22 AM
> Subject: RE: [wplug] Redhat 9 Slow starting - sendmail / sm-client
> 
> ...
> 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

Sweet!  I changed it up like this:
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1     localhost  localhost.localdomain  butanone
192.168.1.100 acetone
$

it booted up with no delay.  could you point me to an authoritative guide to
dns that resides online?  or would i be better off picking up a copy of the
o'reilly dns/bind tome?

thanks!

-Eric

> 
> -----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!