>>My problem is that everytime I do a restart/reboot, during the loading >>of sendmail and sm-client, it will take an unusually longer time (2-3 >>minutes) just for both of them but that the loading process returns no >>error, both sendmail and sm-client give [OK] status. > > > This is almost always a problem with the resolver. Make sure your host > name is resolvable. > Thanks a lot Ed, it is fixed now. Cheers, Alimin