RE: sendmail at boot

[Blomgren Mike <Mike Blomgren trygghansa se>]

I had a similiar problem. Disabling sendmail (with ntsysv) at boot-time
speeded up the boot process... 

It seems as if sendmail attempts to verify connectivity, by checking for
the DNS or other sendmail/SMTP/UUCP servers. Since the network I
administer only has ISDN access, we only open it manually, on demand.
Whenever the ISDN line is down, the Linux box will halt during boot of
sendmail. Needless to say, DNS & SMTP host are on the other side of the
ISDN Router.

~Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rodney Gerard Hendricks [SMTP:rhendrix tartarus uwa edu au]
> Sent:	Monday, April 06, 1998 7:55 AM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:	sendmail at boot
> 
> after recompiling my kernel with network support and setting up
> networking, sendmail takes ~3min to startup at boot.  What have i done
> wrong?  I don't get any error messages.  I don't use mail on the
> machine
> at the moment.  This is the second machine this has happened on.
> 
> *---------------------------------------*
> * Rodney Hendricks                      *
> * <rhendrix tartarus uwa edu au>        *
> *---------------------------------------*
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