nick_elliott at ie.ibm.com wrote:
>> I have a large number of linux pc's - the majority of which are running red
> hat 5.2.
> However, there are a couple that are running red hat 6.1. I find on the 6.1
> machines that sendmail takes ages to start on bootup. I don't really know
> anything about sendmail - does anybody have ideas as to what could cause
> this. On the same machines, x-windows also takes a while to start.
>
Do you have your network settings correct. The only time
I have seen this is when I had a mistake in the hosts file.
The delay was caused by a timeout, to do with name resolution.
Regards,
Mark
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