Sendmail and sm-client are extremely slow at startup

[A.J. Bonnema]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
> Hopefully you have not deleted the localhost entry in /etc/hosts,
> otherwise sendmail and some other applications will not work properly.
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 
> has to be there in every case

Well actually, originally I did, because I didn't have any use for this 
entry. However, I was quickly convinced this was not a wise decision 
following the errors I got.

Anyway, thanks for the tip.

Guus.
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