Hi Amos, Thanks for your comments. Do you have the problem with the slow startup as well?
By the way, I don't have an "/etc/hostname" file, but there is an "/etc/hosts.equiv" file, which is for "rsh" permission, and which just has the bare entry "localhost" in it: it came with the installation and is untouched. Having thought a bit more about the hostname issue, it occurs to me that when the primary machine's IP (it's not public and is just for the LAN) was aliased to "eth0:1" to get the LAN up and running, this effectively sequestered it to the LAN, leaving "localhost" to become the default. However, this is no more than a conjecture. The init file "rc.inet1.conf" only has `DHCP_HOSTNAME[#]=""' entries in it, and the other files in "/etc/rc.d" have no explicit references to any hostname. Basically, the only file with such entries is "/etc/hosts". I wouldn't be bothered were it not for the slow sendmail startup and the info I got from Internode that this can be related to not having a fully qualified hostname with a DNS domain name. If the machine spends a good two minutes launching the sendmail daemon and queue runner, it must be looking around pretty hard for something. I might try hardwiring the Internode mail IP in as a second nameserver, but again this is a longshot. Fortunately, I do very little rebooting. The solution is probably quite straightforward, but not to me at the moment. We'll see. Cheers, Malcolm Johnston -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
