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