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sendmail delay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kirill Shtengel)
Mon Nov 4 21:42:12 1996
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 17:53:08 -0800
From: Kirill Shtengel <kirill@ucla.edu>
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Gentlemen,
I have a question concerning a noticable delay (> 1 min)
when sendmail daemon starts.
It is certainly not a serious problem, although a quite
annoying one.
My machine is a stand-alone Compaq 486DX4-100, however it's not my
computer's specific problem: a friend of mine with Dell Pentium-100
has the very same problem.
It's not RH4.0 specific either: I had 3.0.3 before, and my friend had
2.0 - same thing. It appears to be RedHat specific though: my other
frienduses slackware and does not see this behaviour at all.
All three computers are stand-alone with PPP used for the internet
connections. I was thinking of completely shutting sendmail down, but
some programs e-mail to root to report problems (Accel-X for example).
Here are the symptoms: after reprting on-screen: "Starting sendmail"
the computer reads from the HD for about a second or two and then
gives no indication of life for about a minute. Then it briefly reads
something from the HD and dies again. 10-15 seconds later it finally
wakes up and continues with a normal boot-up.
We guessed that it looks for some nonexistant network connection or
something like this, but we are not certain.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
kirill Shtengel
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