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From: notes@wdl1.UUCP (Notesfile maintainer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: $w macro in Sun's sendmail.mx
Message-ID: <16010004@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 14:59:37 GMT
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Hi,
I used to get tha smae things on my suns. Yes, It has to
do with the Name Server. In our case It was the nameserver was
noty complete starting up when sendmail started. It modified the
rc.boot and rc.local. I start in.named as soon as possible in rc.boot
and then after rc.local is run, I start sendmail near the end of
rc.boot. If the problem continues, put a "sleep 30" after you start
the nameserver. This ensures that there is no other activity on the
host for 30 seconds (or so). I had to do this on a Vax 11/780 that was our
primary DNS host.

Bill Lewandowski
wrl@wdl1.wdl.fac.com