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Re: sendmail delay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (john wilkinson)
Wed Nov 6 12:48:07 1996
From: jw@globalnet.co.uk (john wilkinson)
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 17:39:52 GMT
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On Mon, 04 Nov 1996 17:53:08 -0800, you wrote:
>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=20
>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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I had the same until I set a hostname in network configuration in
control panel.
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Regards
John W
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