From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 22 12:28:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.kiev.ua (segfault.kiev.ua [193.193.193.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E81637B403 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by segfault.kiev.ua (8) with UUCP id WKX06638; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:28:22 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from netch@localhost) by iv.nn.kiev.ua (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5MJQN403505; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:26:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:26:23 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: Thomas Stratmann Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail does not return Message-ID: <20010622222623.H1493@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: <3B2DF4B3.C156CB62@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B2DF4B3.C156CB62@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>; from thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:31:47PM +0200 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 14:31:47, thomas.stratmann (Thomas Stratmann) wrote about "sendmail does not return": > have the weird problem that not anyone of sendmail, newaliases nor mailq > returns (neither does any one of them return any error message or > output). This includes the call of "sendmail -bd -q30m" out of /etc/rc > (the same applies if I do this by hand), so I have to hit ^C to continue > the boot process. It used to work fine the last time I booted (which > means I did not see any errors, and sendmail was up) although I did not > change any of my configuration in the mean time. > > Anyone an idea? Sendmail tries (in default config) to resolve all addresses from all active interfaces and add resolved names to its list of local domains (class {w} in its terminology). Each such resolving can spend a few minutes. You should add these names to /etc/hosts (easy way) or DNS (less easy way). Another solutions are described in other replies to your letter. /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message