Usually, Sendmail is really slow to start when there is a DNS problem.
you may check your /etc/hosts file or your DNS configuration in
order to see if your hostname is well defined.
Fred
Kevin Fife wrote:
I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on a 450 Pentium-II computer. Everything
worked fine. I installed a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter so that I could share
an optical drive on my network. When I started the machine the first time
after installing the card, linux started going very slow when starting
sendmail. Each service afterwards takes about 5 minutes each! I then shut
down the computer and ripped out that card (which did work fine in another
computer). After restarting the machine, linux still acts the same.I start at the GUI login normally, but it would not come up. So I pressed
Alt-F2 to login as root. I was able to 'startx' and get to the GUI login and
eventually to KDE. The shell program works normally, but Netscape takes
about 5 minutes to start.What has happened??
kevin
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