Thanks to everyone who replied with suggestions.
The common response was changing sendmail deamon startup switches, these
made no difference on my server.
Fix for me from Satish Patel of HP Services suggested using FQDN (fully
qualified domain name) for my server.
I added an entry in the /etc/hosts file;
169.254.32.32 bob.mycomp.com
And run command;
bob:root> hostname bob.mycomp.com
et voila!
bob:root> time echo hello | sendmail root
real 0m0.11s
user 0m0.01s
sys 0m0.01s
I will need to make hostname change permanent with;
bob:root> rcmgr set HOSTNAME bob.mycomp.com
Other kind responses from;
Rich Keller
Darryl Cook
Joerg Bruehe
Sheila Hollenbaugh
Rob Leadbeater
Satish Patel
email: shaun.racine_at_intier.com
> Hi Managers,
>
> When I sendmail locally, or externally, it takes exactly 1 minute to go,
> eg:
> bob:root> time echo hello | /usr/sbin/sendmail root
>
> real 1m0.11s
> user 0m0.00s
> sys 0m0.01s
> bob:root>
>
> I have looked in the archive and seen this question asked, but can't see
> any summary.
>
> I have the luxury of maintaining many different versions of Tru64 at
remote
> sites, and have taken timings as follows;
> 4.0E 1 minute
> 4.0F 1 minute
> 4.0G 1 minute
> 5.1 immediate
> 5.1A 1 minute
>
> I do not understand sendmail.cf, although I can see items with ...timeout
> value, but nothing is 1m !
>
> Any way to make sendmail immediate would be helpful. Will summarise.
>
> Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Mr Shaun Racine
> Systems Development Manager
> Intier Automotive Interiors Ltd
> tel: +44 1622 852326 / 859491
> fax: +44 1622 850587
> email: shaun.racine_at_intier.com
Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 09:41:14 NZST