Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[Ed Kasky]

On 14/Dec/2007 21:37 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.

The one time I had this problem, it was related to a fully non-fiunctioning DNS...

HTH

Ed
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