Why does sendmail take a long time in starting up at boot time?

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Issue

  • Sendmail takes few minutes before starting up at the boot time.
  • "service sendmail restart" is also affected by delay.
  • After rebooting the box it hangs at starting sm-client at boot. Not getting login screen.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
  • sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7
  • /etc/hosts

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