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by **Chetan Ahuj** » Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:00:00

Hi,
I have recently installed an old Redhat distribution that I had lying
around on CD. Everything's fine except for this. At boottime, I see a
message "starting sendmail" at which the booting process pauses for
almost one full minute. After which it resumes normally. why is this
happening. I am using this as a single user machine and don't really
need sendmail. Can I just remove it without affecting any other parts
of the system.. if yes How?

Thanks
Chetan

by **Yves Bellefeuil** » Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:00:00

> I have recently installed an old Redhat distribution that I had lying
> around on CD. Everything's fine except for this. At boottime, I see a
> message "starting sendmail" at which the booting process pauses for
> almost one full minute. After which it resumes normally. why is this
> happening. I am using this as a single user machine and don't really
> need sendmail. Can I just remove it without affecting any other parts
> of the system.. if yes How?

This problem was mentioned in the "errata" for Red Hat 4.0, so it's
surprising that it didn't get fixed in version 4.1. The problem is that
sendmail is looking for a network connection and only gives up after
trying for a minute.

The solution proposed by Red Hat is to edit /etc/sysconfig/network and to
change the line which reads:

HOSTNAME=localhost

to read:

HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

(Actually, you can use any two words with a period between them.)

If you want to disable sendmail entirely and save the memory it would use,
then edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail.init. Comment out these two lines, by
putting the symbol "#" in front of them:

daemon sendmail -bd -q1h

and:

killproc sendmail
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sendmail... don't want!!

sendmail... don't want!!

sendmail... don't want!!