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Fixing sendmail take a long time to start

I notice that my database box[FC6+Oracle10.2] take along time to startup. Sendmail and sm-client very very slow to start[ about 5 minutes ]. There's something wrong in /etc/hosts file. 'newalises' command take long time to update and finish with error below.
[root@ora10g ~]# newaliases
WARNING: local host name (ora10g) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I?
/etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total
[root@ora10g ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.55 ora10g
[root@ora10g ~]#

To fix this, custom hostname[ora10g] need to append to localhost line in /etc/hosts.
[root@ora10g ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ora10g
192.168.1.55 ora10g
[root@ora10g ~]# newaliases
/etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total
[root@ora10g ~]#

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Anonymous said…
This has been bothering me for a long time. Thanks for the tip.
Anonymous said…
Still useful after 2 years, thanks for that life (and time ;) saver post.
Anonymous said…
Still useful, Now 3 years later! :)

Thanks!
Anonymous said…
Great !
If you want a faster startup, additionally use fix address instead of DHCP.
In FreeBSD, edit /etc/rc.conf and change the line
ifconfig_if0="DHCP" for ifconfig_if0="inet 192.168.1.55 netmask 255.255.255.0"
just note that _if0 corresponds to your real interface, and can be _em0, _rl0 and so on. The address 192.168.1.55 corresponds to example given and can be whatever you want, with netmask compatible.
Anonymous said…
Thank you very much. actually it worked for me..
Good stuff..
Anonymous said…
Thank you so much!!! it's really helpful for me :D
Anonymous said…
Still useful after 4 years.Not only sendmail but even the system welcome screen and everything became faster ..Thanks Bud.
Anonymous said…
Took 59 seconds off my boot time. Thank you :D
Anonymous said…
Awesome - very helpful. Thank you.

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