On Oct 2, 2004 at 09:07, Bob Goodwin in a soothing rage wrote: >ne... wrote: > >>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. >> >Yes, I added two lines to /etc/hosts: > >cat /etc/hosts ># Do not remove the following line, or various programs ># that require network functionality will fail. >127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost This is fine. >localhost <<---- The line above needs to be removed. >10.1.1.1 box1 box1 >10.1.1.2 box2 box2 The second 'box1' & 'box2' need to be fully qualified I believe. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Remember, in 2039, MOUSSE & PASTA will be available ONLY by prescription!! 10:42:21 up 96 days, 3:57, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00