From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 3:20:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D3A37B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FF543FAD for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0DBK91n008004 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:20:09 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0DBK4T1008003 for freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:20:04 GMT Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:20:04 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 Release hangs upon Sendmail startup. Message-ID: <20030113112004.GA7583@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <18210333171.20030113120226@dwa.as> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <18210333171.20030113120226@dwa.as> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message