[linux-help] Re: Very slow sendmail startup

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 23:35 -0500, bbales wrote:
> 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
> 

glad to help.




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