On Oct 2, 2004 at 04:19, Bob Goodwin in a soothing rage 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. Which leads me to believe you have made changes to your /etc/hosts file somewhere along the line. Please post the contents of this file. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A: A stick. 07:26:09 up 96 days, 40 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00