SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME

[Arun Jain]

Dear all,

I am facing a problem in a server at the boot time. The server boot process get stuck at the sendmail service option.

If I want to stop the service or daemon for the same, what should I do and which services/daemon I should stop.

Regards:
Arun Jain

[Tim Nelson]

edit /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and change SENDMAIL_SERVER=0

This will disable.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

This problem comes commonly from misconfiguration that results in an invalid sendmail.cf file.

It is not recommended to run this daemon on systems that do not need to receive mail.

/etc/rc.config.d/sendmail

Set the start variable to zero.

You can have cron run sendmail -q
on a schedule to get mail off the machine to other destinations.

You will see errors in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

They may be helpful in actually resolving the problem.

SEP

[TTr]

sendmail will also hang like this when the server name can not be resolved via DNS.

[whiteknight]

Arun,

check you have defined DNS in /etc/resolv.conf ?

check /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns


WK