FC2 Slow boot after network setup -

Harikrishnan M hari.lists at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 16:47:19 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:46:15 -0400 (EDT), ne... <akabi at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 2004 at 09:07, Bob Goodwin in a soothing rage wrote:
> 
> >ne... wrote:
> >
> >>On Oct 2, 2004 at 04:19, Bob Goodwin in a soothing rage wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm not sure what I've done but suddenly the time to boot has gone from
> >>>about two minutes to what seems like about five minutes more. Toward the
> >>>end of the boot process it dwells on starting ntpd, starting sendmail,
> >>>and starting smb-client. The rest of the boot process seems normal.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Which leads me to believe you have made changes to your
> >>/etc/hosts file somewhere along the line. Please post
> >>the contents of this file.
> >>
> >Yes, I added two lines to /etc/hosts:
> >
> >cat /etc/hosts
> ># Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> ># that require network functionality will fail.
> >127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost 
> This is fine.
> 
> >localhost  <<----
> The line above needs to be removed.
> 
> >10.1.1.1        box1    box1
> >10.1.1.2        box2    box2
> The second 'box1' & 'box2' need to be fully qualified
> I believe.

It has to be the fully qualified domain name. Sendmail in particular
looks up the /etc/hosts file on startup.

I also remember having seen a delay caused by nfs mount, if you dont
add 'nolock' to the mount options.

> 
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