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Old 10th March 2010, 05:38 PM
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My Centos based HP computer always stuck at Sendmail boot prompt for 5 to 10 minutes. It say Starting sendmail and than it stuck their for a long time. How to stop this? I want to boot faster and not wait too long and may i ask what it does in home computer?
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Configure proper ISP dns servers via /etc/resolv.conf or add your computer name in /etc/hosts file
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192.168.2.2    your-computer-name
127.0.0.1    localhost
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