[linux-help] Re: sendmail questions

[james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> I have Red Hat 6.2 on four boxes.  On bootup, two of them take about two 
> seconds to finish "Starting Sendmail."  The other two take a full two 
> minutes.  They always say "OK" after their respective startup times.  I don't 
> know if I am using sendmail or not.
> 
> The "start" section of S80Sendmail under /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ looks the same in 
> each machine; it does a makemap hash (whatever that means) on four files in 
> /etc/mail/ and these four files all look the same.
> 
> Question 1: Do I need sendmail if I use Netscape for email?

I would venture not, unless you are running your own mail server, based on your 
address you are not. 
Try this: (as root) "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop", then try to send/recieve 
your mail. If that works, you aren't using sendmail to send your mail. Assuming 
that is the case (which is very likely) you can either hand move the link, or 
use redhat's 'setup' program (my personal choice for toggling on/off of 
daemons).

> Question 2: What could cause the two-minute startup of sendmail?

Sendmail thinking it is a real mail server, but it can't determine it's domain 
name to be. 

btw, anyone know where sendmail logs? it doesn't appear to be in /var/log/

james l

> 
> Thanks in advance, bruce
> 
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