On 14/Dec/2007 21:37 John Summerfield wrote .. > Simon Slater wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. When booting sendmail takes > > a very long time to start. This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 on > > a new laptop. I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far. Done! > > Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is ... finished > > in ... 4 minutes. The rest boots quite quickly, less than 2 minutes for > > everything else. All mail is done through another box. This is not a > > problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea and get a slice of cake. > > > > If you ever get tired of the opportunity to have morning tea and a > natter while the computer gets started, you might get around to checking > that networking is starting properly, you have fully functioning DNS or > an alternative. The one time I had this problem, it was related to a fully non-fiunctioning DNS... HTH Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Randomly generated quote: A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
