I noticed that if the network card is set to automatic configuration (obtain everything IP address, DNS etc from modem router then boot process is smooth. But I give static IP address to my computer then that's the time sendmail and sm_client takes forever to start. Why is that so? can somebody guide me? I need to use static IP in my computer for hosting webpage inside the lan. Thanks On 7/15/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess I will just disable for now. I don't have any intention to run mail server. Thanks again On 7/13/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 23:51 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My fedora 5 installation is working fine except some annoying boot > > time. During boot, when it reaches the part of starting sendmail it > > takes about 2 minutes and another 1 minute for the sm_client. Well I > > have nothing against it but my boot process seems to take forever. By > > the way what is this "sm_client" thing? I am not intending to use any > > mail server so is it safe to turn off the sendmail? Will this affect > > other programs? and is it ok to turn off "sm_client" and how? > > I run FC5 on my laptop with sendmail disabled on boot and no sm_client. > Actually, I've disabled sendmail on every desktop installation of Fedora > that I can remember. > > IMHO sendmail is necessary only if you want to run a mail server. If you > are just running Fedora as a desktop OS, sendmail is still used by > certain applications, such as logwatch (I think) to send email > notifications and reports to user root. Other applications such as mdadm > (for RAID systems) and fetchmail also use it. > > For me, I don't see the need to run sendmail because I don't have RAID > on my laptop, I don't use fetchmail and I get annoyed by email reports > to root (for my laptop -- not my servers!). None of the applications I > use on a daily basis have been impacted in any way. I still send and > receive email (using an external SMTP server) with Evolution, use > OpenOffice for my reports, documents, spreadsheets, etc., and use > Firefox for browsing. > > Hope this helps ! > > -- > Pascal Chong > email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > web: http://cymulacrum.net > pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc > > "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance > appartient à l'humanité. et que c'est la flamme qui illumine le monde." > > -- Louis Pasteur > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBEtlrpQQLDZ1XJeNYRAinqAKDCV8yE6QPqnRIgbcOVt37/3smsrwCfdKLM > GZ9fDoNFJDoMipCj68W4+lk= > =Z7ea > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
