Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Dec 15 05:37:31 UTC 2007
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.
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Cheers
John
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