On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 14:37 +0900, 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. > Thanks everyone, Here's some more info: /usr/share/doc/yp-tools-2.9/nsswitch.conf has the line hosts: nis files dns /etc/hosts is # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 192.168.0.6 Acer Extensa5220 192.168.0.5 Lockie PII400-786 192.168.0.4 Coral PII233-384 192.168.0.3 Ipex PII233-512 and sendmail.mc contains dnl # dnl # The following causes sendmail to only listen on the IPv4 loopback address dnl # 127.0.0.1 and not on any other network devices. Remove the loopback dnl # address restriction to accept email from the internet or intranet. dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl dnl # I have never changed nsswitch.conf nor sendmail.mc before. Are these as they should be? /etc/hosts is similar for all machines on the network. Does the loopback line need changing? -- Regards Simon
