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Date:      Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:04:22 +0200
From:      David Landgren <david@landgren.net>
To:        Kevin.Greenidge1@VerizonWireless.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: System very slow to boot
Message-ID:  <3F4E5236.8080903@landgren.net>
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Kevin.Greenidge1@VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> 1) Since reloading my system I find that it is very slow to boot. It looks
> like it hangs while trying the load the sendmail and sendmail-client
> daemons. It eventually boots after 20 minutes or so. I tried disabling
> sendmail but it still boots very slow. The initial bootup right after

On the chance that you really don't want sendmail (if only to run a 
different MTA such as exim, postfix or qmail), you have to set two 
values in rc.conf:

sendmail_enable="NO"
mta_start_script=""

It's the latter one that tripped me up. But anyway, you do need 
functional DNS.

David



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