Thank you for the suggestion about giving the system a fully qualified name. That fixed the slow sendmail startup issue. I'm still scratching my head about the initial login - very strange.
Regards, Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, May 7, 2004 2:51 pm Subject: RedHat 8 startup issues > Hi folks, > > My RedHat 8 system has two startup issues. I haven't > been able to figure out what is going on. > > 1. during the normal cold startup cycle, the > startup pauses on sendmail and sm-client for a long > time (4+minutes). I'm only using mail for internal > accounts on the box and I clear out /var/spool/mail > regularly. I'm running the defaul sendmail config > that came with RH8 and it used to blast through that > startup in seconds. Here's the syslog entries (note > the times): > May 5 13:45:13 z3 rc: Starting qpage: succeeded > May 5 13:49:55 z3 sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded > May 5 13:52:15 z3 sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded > May 5 13:52:15 z3 gpm: gpm startup succeeded > May 5 13:52:16 z3 crond: crond startup succeeded > > 2. Once booted with login gui ready, the 1st login > always fails and the second attempt with the same > uid/pw always succeeds.The gui popup message is > "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds,If > you have not logged out yourself this could mean > that there is some installation problem or that you > may be out of disc space try logging into failsafe > sesseions to se if you can fix the problem. <OK>". > Here's the log entries for that sequence: > > May 5 13:54:05 z3 qpage[1061]: disconnect from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 5 13:54:07 z3 gdm(pam_unix)[993]: session > opened for user greg by (uid=0) > May 5 13:54:10 z3 gdm(pam_unix)[993]: session > closed for user greg > May 5 13:54:20 z3 gdm(pam_unix)[993]: session > opened for user greg by (uid=0) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] greg]$ cat .xsession-errors > > KeyChain 2.0.2; http://www.gentoo.org/projects/keychain > Copyright 2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.; > Distributed under the GPL > * Found existing ssh-agent at PID 6563 > > SESSION_MANAGER=local/Z3:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7592 > Loaded background '0x8095788 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] greg]$ su - > > > Any ideas on what is going on here would be greatly > appreciated. > > Regards, > Greg King > > > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
