On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 04:19 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I'm not sure what I've done but suddenly the time to boot has gone from > about two minutes to what seems like about five minutes more. Toward the > end of the boot process it dwells on starting ntpd, starting sendmail, > and starting smb-client. The rest of the boot process seems normal. > > I was setting up a second computer with FC-2 for the grandsons and > decided to make a simple network to pass files between them and to print > from this one. After that exercise the slow boot seems to have shown up > on both. Other than that everything seems to work nicely making it a > non-problem I suppose, more an abnormality? > > Both are old Pentium class computers with 300 - 400 megs of RAM. > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia > Delays like this are typically name resolution related. Did you make any hostname/hosts/dns changes? Possible that your network interface is crawling as well, check network I/O. You could try the below steps if you don't see anything in the log files. or find anything. As root from the console/local keyboard chkconfig ntpd off chkconfig sendmail off chkconfig smb-client off init 1 init 3 service ntpd start check the log files manually try doing an ntpdate to the server in your ntpd.conf slocate ntpd.conf Ted
