Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[Ed Kasky]

At 11:31 PM Friday, 12/14/2007, John Summerfield wrote -=>
>Ed Kasky wrote:
>>On 14/Dec/2007 21:37 John Summerfield wrote ..
>>>Simon Slater wrote:
>>>>         Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>                 Just a question to satisfy my curiosity.  When 
>>>> booting sendmail takes
>>>>a very long time to start.  This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 on
>>>>a new laptop.  I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far.  Done!
>>>>Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is ... finished
>>>>in ... 4 minutes.  The rest boots quite quickly, less than 2 minutes for
>>>>everything else.  All mail is done through another box.  This is not a
>>>>problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea and get a slice of cake.
>>>If you ever get tired of the opportunity to have morning tea and a 
>>>natter while the computer gets started, you might get around to 
>>>checking that networking is starting properly, you have fully 
>>>functioning DNS or   an alternative.
>>The one time I had this problem, it was related to a fully 
>>non-fiunctioning DNS...
>
>Exactly, but it makes a fine excuse to spend some delightful time 
>with friends. Tea and cake taken with friends, what could be better?

I don't think it would be appropriate to post here ;-)

Ed

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