It's probably a name resolving issue of (iirc) your hostname (check with command hostname). If sendmail can't contact the configured dns server to resolve your hostname, it will wait (hang if you like) until the dns query times out. This can occur when you use dialup to the Net with a modem and you have the ISP's dns server configured as your dns but you are not online so the ISP's dns server can not be contacted. Which makes sense during boot-up. You may want to put your hostname + ip address in /etc/hosts. Make sure /etc/host.conf says "order hosts, bind" (without the quotes). Alternatively check your dns settings and /etc/resolv.conf Cheers, Patrick On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:50, Anton Piatek wrote: > When booting, my machine takes ages to start sendmail and smclient... > can anyone help me diagnose why..? where are the config/log files for > these services, and why would they take 90 seconds or more each to > start? > > i have a static ip on the network so i dont understand why sendmail > should take so long > -- > Anton Piatek | map02@doc.ic.ac.uk > | > anton@piatek.co.uk | Dept of Mathematics, > | Imperial College, > 07900-951-627 | London, UK > --- > Wise men speak when they have something to say. > Fools speak when they have to say something. - Plato > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
