slow to boot / sendmail

[redhat at stimpy.fastmail.fm]

I just experienced the same problem. Sendmail tried to resolv my
hostname but didn't find the loopback entry in my /etc/hosts file!
*misteriously dissapeared*

127.0.0.1     MYHOSTNAME   localhost.localdomain   localhost


----- Original message -----
From: "Stephen W" <winstephen at yahoo.com>
To: "RH discussion" <redhat-list at redhat.com>, "linux users"
<linux at flux.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:47:46 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: slow to boot 

I have solved the problem getting comcast cable to
work ...

but now ... when the machine boots it hangs for a long
time at:

starting sendmail
starting sm-client

They eventually load, but it sure takes time.  Is this
related to something with the cable modem install?

I do not use sendmail [yet - will it work with
comcast?]

What is sm-client?

StephenW