On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:27, Nicholas Jepsen wrote: > I have Fedora Core 1 on my computer, basically in the default > configuration, and everytime I boot up the system waits about 3 > minutes to load sendmail! Then it takes another 3 minutes to load > "sm-client"! I'm not running any kind of mail server, and I haven't > even configured a regular mail client yet. How can I set speed-up or > bypass these slow processes? Do I have to edit some boot-loading > script? Thanks for the help!
Problems with sendmail starting slow almost always have to do with DNS. Usually it means that it can't find (or qualify) it's own name. If you're booting it without a network that might be why. You can disable sendmail (as other people have suggested) but some services use the local sendmail for error reporting. I'd try switching to postfix (a good idea anyway) to see if it behaves any better. The tool to do this is called 'redhat-switch-mail', but you might have to 'yum install postfix' before you switch to it. The next thing you might try is putting an entry in /etc/hosts, but I'm not sure what sendmail is looking for in this case. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
