> Hi all, > > Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. When booting sendmail takes > a very long time to start. This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 > on a new laptop. I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far. > Done! Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is > ... finished in ... 4 minutes. The rest boots quite quickly, less > than 2 minutes for everything else. All mail is done through another > box. This is not a problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea > and get a slice of cake. I have had some success in analogous situations adding hosts and IPs in the hosts file along with localhost info, and making sure the nsswitch.conf has "files" before "dns" on the "hosts:" line. I do not use db (database) files or flavor of nis so the hosts line in my nsswitch.conf file is just: hosts: files dns However it is possible that the problem is some change in the sendmail configuration files after an upgrade so you may want to look at your sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files in /etc/mail to make sure nothing has changed. dlg
