The boot delay is probably occurring because sendmail is attempting to
connect to a nameserver. Three minutes is a typical timeout delay for that
process, and that can easily stretch to a measured 5 minutes. Either
reconfigure sendmail so it does not expect a nameserver (I think there is a
RH install option for this) or fix your network problem and provide access
to DNS.
Your second question is more RH-specific than my knowledge is, so I can't
help there. Might running "linuxconf" help here?
At 11:30 AM 8/17/99 +0000, Jon Dowd wrote:
>Hello, I've recently installed Red Hat v6.0 and changed my hostname to
>something more to my liking than "localdomain". I had no idea what to
>use as an ip address so I guessed 0.0.0.0 (hmm...).
>Now when I boot there is a 5 minute delay at "Starting Sendmail". Is
>this a coincidence?
>Also I unchecked "DOS Connectivity" at install, but would like to add it
>now. Can you help me?
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