[linux-help] Re: Very slow sendmail startup

[bbales <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 May 2005 22:32, Jeff Vian wrote:

> On the same thought, does the /etc/hosts file contain the line
>    127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> If not then it should, as per the note above this line in the
> default /etc/hosts file.
> That line missing can cause many problems in network services.

I've seen that line 100 times and this time I just put in "localhost" and 
not "localhost.localdomain."  Just now i corrected it and it took about 
two seconds to go through sendmail and SM-client.  Problem solved.

Thanks to both of you,
bruce

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