Booting FC5 & more queries

[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 01:57 -0800, A A wrote:

> Over the last 5 times I noticed a strange thing while Fedora 5 boots.
> The moment it probes for *Sendmail*, its takes considerably longtime,
> nearly 4 to 5 mins. Then it says OK and goes to next probe *Sm-Client*
> which again takes about 2 mins. This never happened before. What must
> have changed here? I did not change any settings.

Possibly a name resolution error.  Do you use DNS or the hosts file?
Whichever you use, is it working correctly?

And if you use DNS served from another PC, networking and firewalling
comes into the equation, too.

> 1] Can anyone tell me what is the Linux equivalent of CTRL+ALT+DEL
> which we use in Windows to terminate any program?

In the command line you can use "top" to see what's running, and kill
things through it as well.  There's also a graphical system monitor, to
which I forget the name, but it's probably something like ktop or
gnome-system-monitor.

> 2]what would be Linux equivalent of MSCONFIG where it gives me options
> to disable unwanted programs for faster booting?

There's, at least, "serviceconf" (GUI), and "chkconfig" (CLI).

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