Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[John Summerfield]

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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