sendmail woes

[Brian Astill]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote

>What's your sendmail-related rc.conf part like?
>
>	% grep -i sendmail /etc/rc.conf
>
sendmail_enable="YES"

I waited a L O N G time during boot and eventually this sequence occurred:

Starting standard daemons: inetd cron printer sshd usbd sendmail 
sendmail-clientmqueue.

The boot then continued normally to the login prompt.

I ran top to see if sendmail had leaded (see pid 113), but internet 
access is still NIL <sigh>:

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  173 root      99  20   868K   452K RUN     12:31 97.56% 97.56% fvcool
  216 bra        2   0 61956K 60828K select   0:03  0.05%  0.05% XFree86
  225 bra        2   0  1996K  1512K select   0:00  0.05%  0.05% rxvt
  253 bra        2   0 24432K 19752K poll     0:02  0.00%  0.00% kmail
  245 bra        2   0 16348K 12208K poll     0:02  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
  228 bra        2   0 20156K 16428K poll     0:01  0.00%  0.00% konqueror
  221 bra        2   0  3768K  3032K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% wmaker
  267 bra       28   0  1980K  1244K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
  108 root       2   0  2592K  1916K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  145 root       2   0   916K   552K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% moused
  227 bra        2   0  1996K  1512K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% rxvt
   69 root       2   0   432K   288K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% natd
  239 bra        2   0 15264K 10636K poll     0:00  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
  243 bra        2   0 15700K 10996K poll     0:00  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
  236 bra        2   0 15152K 10356K poll     0:00  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
  248 bra        2   0 15316K 10984K poll     0:00  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
  224 bra        2   0  2796K  1988K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% xmbmon
  268 bra        3   0  1156K   896K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% aee
  113 root       2   0  3028K  2232K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% sendmail
   86 root       2   0   948K   672K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
  264 bra        2   0 15460K 10876K poll     0:00  0.00%  0.00% kdeinit
  196 bra       10   0  1080K   868K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
  226 bra        2   0  2680K  1912K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% xclock
  183 root      10   0  1268K   988K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% login
  232 bra       10   0  1068K   920K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
  233 bra       10   0  1068K   916K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash
  106 root       2   0   976K   720K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% lpd
  103 root      10   0  1024K   780K nanslp   0:00  0.00%  0.00% cron
  215 bra       10   0  1744K  1092K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% xinit
  204 bra       10   0   636K   440K wait     0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
  184 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  186 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  189 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  187 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  190 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  119 smmsp     18   0  2928K  2228K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% sendmail
  185 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  188 root       3   0   952K   656K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  191 root       3   0   948K   624K siodcd   0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  192 root       3   0   948K   624K siodcd   0:00  0.00%  0.00% getty
  110 root       2   0   924K   572K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% usbd
  168 bra        2   0  1700K  1216K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% cvsupd
  101 root       2   0  1056K   704K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% inetd
   24 root      18   0   212K    88K pause    0:00  0.00%  0.00% adjkerntz
   92 root      10   0   212K    80K nfsidl   0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsiod
   93 root      10   0   212K    80K nfsidl   0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsiod
   95 root      10   0   212K    80K nfsidl   0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsiod
   94 root      10   0   212K    80K nfsidl   0:00  0.00%  0.00% nfsiod


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Brian