Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)
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"D. W. Wieboldt" <dwiebold@cactus.org> writes:
> I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running
> just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one
> so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues about what
> I should be looking for?
Aah. OK, here's the deal. Sendmail is not hanging. It is trying to
do a local DNS lookup. Since you probably aren't connected to the
'net 24/7, it spends a couple of minutes timing out.
This happens to me a lot. You have two options: put your hostname and
IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't
need to do a DNS lookup. The second I don't remember how to do, but I
think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files
are very very ugly).
LPRng does this too, I note, but it isn't nearly as easy to fix.
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