Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:20:04 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 Release hangs upon Sendmail startup. Message-ID: <20030113112004.GA7583@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <18210333171.20030113120226@dwa.as> References: <18210333171.20030113120226@dwa.as>
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:02:26PM +0100, Metin de Dwaas wrote:
> When I install BSD on a colo machine (actually 2 machines)
> And after the installation I reboot the machine..
> It hangs on the startup:
>=20
> "Starting Daemons: sshd sendmail sendmail-mclient" something like
> that.. when i disable it in rc.conf and start sendmail manually with
> "sendmail -bd" it wont come up.. shouldnt the mailserver come up with
> the default settings also?
Sendmail hanging on startup usually indicates a DNS problem ---
sendmail puts a lot of effort into looking up the local host and the
addresses of it's interfaces in the DNS in order to work out what it's
FQDN should be and so forth. If there's a problem doing that, it will
hang for what seems like a very long time indeed waiting for answers
=66rom the DNS. Actually it's only about 30s per query per nameserver
listed in /etc/resolv.conf.
Check /var/log/maillog --- there will be sufficient error messages
logged in there to enable you to diagnose what exactly is broken and
presumably how to fix it. Or let us see relevant portions of the log
files if you need more help.
=20
Cheers,
Matthew
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