Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
John wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
That sounds like the system is trying to do a DNS lookup, and/or
taking a while to do the DHCP handshake/settings. With the cable
unplugged, it does not try to access the network. (As long as your
NIC and driver supports link detection - most do.)
Are you connected to a router? Is the interface set for dynamic or
static IP? Did you set a hostname?
Mikkel
Turning off the services sounds fine; I'm tucked behind a router.
John
Turning off sendmail will give you problems when cron jobs, or other
programs try to send you mail. (That is why sendmail is installed
and enabled by default.) What may be happening is that the hostname
you are using is not in /etc/hosts, and doing a lookup using the
name servers set by DHCP is failing. You can use the hostname
command to see what your hostname is set to. The default is
localhost.localdomain and is mapped to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts.
Mikkel
I changed the hostname a while back; I'll try the default again, when
I have a moment.
Coworker has me looking at an old Dell laptop (why is it running so
slow?). I just about died laughing-- WinXP Home on a 300 PII with 64mb
of ram... Well, duh...
