--- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > > Cheers > John I have had that problem, too. It seems that sendmail requires a complete hostname (with a domain) and sort of sits on its hands for a long time before timing out and continuing. So in my case, I named the computer "name.localdomain", and updated the entry in /etc/hosts for my machine to 127.0.0.1 name.localdomain name localhost.localdomain localhost where the last 3 items are aliases and thus will work for probably any program's needs. --bc ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs