slow sendmail starting on a lan

[Joshua Lokken]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:50:39 -0600, Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net> wrote:
> Here I am running into is this... sendmail is taking for ever to start
> on a box. My main server has no problem, but this box takes a long
> time starting sendmail.
> 
> Here are the related config files and ect for the box it is slow on.
> The only difference is a this one has a few less services enabled on
> it than server and the server has actual nameservers configured. This
> box uses a dns proxy/cache on the server for dns.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> /etc/hosts
> ::1                     localhost localhost.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.
> 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> group: nis files
> hosts: nis files dns
> networks: files
> passwd: nis [unavail=continue] files
> shells: nis files
> 
> ypcat of hosts
> 192.168.0.3             fennec fennec.
> 192.168.0.2             vixen42 vixen42.
> 
> /etc/resolve.conf
> nameserver      192.168.0.2
> 
> /etc/rc.conf
> defaultrouter="192.168.0.1"
> hostname="fennec"
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.0.3  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> inetd_enable="YES"
> linux_enable="YES"
> moused_enable="YES"
> nfs_client_enable="YES"
> nfs_server_enable="YES"
> sshd_enable="YES"
> usbd_enable="NO"
> nis_client_enable="YES"
> rpcbind_enable="YES"
> nisdomainname="Vulpes"
> inetd_enable="YES"
> #lpd_enable="YES"

This may be completely irrelevant, but I don't see
sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf


-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate