Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Fri Dec 21 08:41:52 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 08:17 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> > When all is set up as needed for family and business then bind would
> be
> > needed (along with LDAP, IMAP and web servers) but I have not
> started
> Please, don't use Fedora for those. Look how many problems people are
> having that are not self-inflicted. A cheap RHEL clone is a good
> low-cost choice if you can do the administration yourself, and CentOS
> is
> the best of the clones for most people.
>
> If you _need_ the _latest_ software, and can do the administration
> yourself, and can tolerate the occasional problem when something's
> broken, then Fedora is a good choice.
>
> If you want low-cost, better reliability and a long service life, the
> CentOS. AFAIK CentOS 2.1 lives on, and that predates FC1.
When time is too short to look after the system myself, I was thinking
of RHEL for the business so site managers could have 'phone support and
CentOS for systems I would continue to support.
>
> > reading on any of them yet. This is why I like this list, a good
> > cross-section of Fedora implementations and platforms, with users
> > ranging fom novice (me) to well seasoned and experienced.
>
> I wanted to know how to set up a DNS, so I installed BIND (on OS/2,
> it
> was _that_ long ago). So that's what I do.
>
> What sendmail needs is speedy answers to all its questions, and since
> I
> can configure BIND fairly easily, that's what I do.
>
> It's probably not the only way (and it surely isn't the only DNS
> server), but it works.
>
> If you plan on doing it anyway, now's probably the time.
>
A New Year's resolution!
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Regards
Simon
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