On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Thomas Bryan wrote:
: Today when I booted into Linux, I first thought that my system
: had hung itself during boot up. It got to "starting sendmail",
: and it stayed at that point for about 2 minutes. Then it finished
: booting up. That's never happened before. The only thing that I've
: changed recently is that I finally got an external modem set up so that I
: can dial into TELESYS.
:
: Does sendmail take a long time to start on everyone else's systems? If
: not, where can I even start to look to figure this out? It wouldn't
: bother me except that I know that it's a recent change, and I don't think
: I've modified anything which should matter.
Hmm... I've had that same delay when my system gets to sendmail. Each
time it happened to me, it was because sendmail couldn't do a DNS lookup
on my hostname. So, if you're not using sendmail, you could just turn it
off. Other than that, you might check any files in /etc that are DNS
related, though I'm not sure exactly which one would allow you to fix the
problem.
Jonathan Arehart
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