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Re: The Sendmail daemon of RedHat 4.0 is too slow



On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 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.



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