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Re: The Sendmail daemon of RedHat 4.0 is too slow



On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> > I've installed a RedHat 4.0 distribution on my computer (P166+16MB of
> > RAM, but it really doesn't matter what machine it is). The distribution
> > was configured to load the sendmail daemon when Linux was loaded. But I
> > realized that it took it too long to complete its initialization that I
> > had to remove it from there. 
> 
> Sendmail tries to resolve the machine's name and address until timeout. 
> you can either shorten it's timeout to a few seconds somewhere in the
> sendmail.cf or (the right way) set up bind with some meaningfull
> configuration. RedHat was indeed built for network services and not too
> considerate for the single station.

Why, it's just a bug in RedHat 4.0. They solved it in RedHat 4.1. I
remember solving it just by entering the Control Panel in X and setting
the hostname properly there (you don't have to have a real one, you should
just write _something_ in the host and domain fields).


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