FC5 boot process, sendmail and sm_client???

[Deepak Shrestha]

I noticed that if the network card is set to automatic configuration
	(obtain everything IP address, DNS etc from modem router then boot
process is smooth. But I give static IP address to my computer then
that's the time sendmail and sm_client takes forever to start. Why is
that so? can somebody guide me? I need to use static IP in my computer
for hosting webpage inside the lan.

Thanks

On 7/15/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I will just disable for now. I don't have any intention to run
> mail server. Thanks  again
>
> On 7/13/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 23:51 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My fedora 5 installation is working fine except some annoying boot
> > > time. During boot, when it reaches the part of starting sendmail it
> > > takes about 2 minutes and another 1 minute for the sm_client. Well I
> > > have nothing against it but my boot process seems to take forever. By
> > > the way what is this "sm_client" thing?  I am not intending to use any
> > > mail server so is it safe to turn off the sendmail? Will this affect
> > > other programs? and is it ok to turn off "sm_client" and how?
> >
> > I run FC5 on my laptop with sendmail disabled on boot and no sm_client.
> > Actually, I've disabled sendmail on every desktop installation of Fedora
> > that I can remember.
> >
> > IMHO sendmail is necessary only if you want to run a mail server. If you
> > are just running Fedora as a desktop OS, sendmail is still used by
> > certain applications, such as logwatch (I think) to send email
> > notifications and reports to user root. Other applications such as mdadm
> > (for RAID systems) and fetchmail also use it.
> >
> > For me, I don't see the need to run sendmail because I don't have RAID
> > on my laptop, I don't use fetchmail and I get annoyed by email reports
> > to root (for my laptop -- not my servers!). None of the applications I
> > use on a daily basis have been impacted in any way. I still send and
> > receive email (using an external SMTP server) with Evolution, use
> > OpenOffice for my reports, documents, spreadsheets, etc., and use
> > Firefox for browsing.
> >
> > Hope this helps !
> >
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