Sendmail
 

When I power on my slackware pc,there is a big delay when starts the sendmail.Is this normal?Any ideas to solve it?

It is unusual, on mine it starts quickly, I am connected from a router though
I would suspect that the delay may be caused by your net connection not ready when
sendmail try to start
Or maybe it is another process that slow thing (a process who was
executed prior sendmail in boot sequence)

To test, you could chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail and try a reboot, see if it is faster

do u use sendmail , if not , put off this ;)

Setup=>Service(press spacebar and ENTER)=>see rc.sendmail and press spacebar to desactivate

thabk you both.i will try this

When an internet related service (daemon) starts with a long delay it is often due to problems with resolving names/IP addresses. Are you running named/bind? Do you use dynamic IP addresses, via DHCP? If so: Check, if your ISP's nameserver is in your network configuration.

gargamel

I wold look at how your machine is identified in hosts and sendmail. if there is a conflict it will result in startup delays. for instance if you do not have the hosts loopback declaration pointing to localhost sendmail will choke forever.

Tom

Check this link:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/120053

In /etc/hosts you must have the address and the name of
the machine

Ex:

192.168.0.1 computer.net computer

Richard