Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Dec 15 07:31:33 UTC 2007


Ed Kasky wrote:
> 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...

Exactly, but it makes a fine excuse to spend some delightful time with 
friends. Tea and cake taken with friends, what could be better?

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Cheers
John

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