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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 19:37:58 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
To:        "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail hangs while booting...
Message-ID:  <390F1276.8174F3BE@cybercable.fr>
References:  <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005021743370.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>

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"G.B.Naidu" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have posted a questoin earleir regarding a panic while booting. I didnt
> get any response.
> 
> While still struggling to boot, I am getting some more strange problems.
> Some times the sendmail daemon hangs while booting. The kernel files that
> I have changed are: if_ethersubr.c, ip_output.c, rtsock.c

Generally, sendmail is a bit slow to boot, as it tries to resolve the
hostname of your machine via dns : if your hostname is not declared in a
DNS, sendmail has to wait the timeout duration before finishing its
startup.


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