From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 02:12:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA05902 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 02:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mserv1b.u-net.net (mserv1b.u-net.net [195.102.240.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA05893 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 02:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjp@kietra.u-net.com) Received: from (mars) [194.119.133.210] by mserv1b.u-net.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z1oj3-0004Cr-00; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:10:17 +0100 Message-ID: <35C0394E.1063@kietra.u-net.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:13:50 +0100 From: "Richard J. Pontefract" Reply-To: rjp@kietra.u-net.com Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tom@mercia.com CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does xemacs and netscape take five minuits to start? References: <35C00A67.5D02C253@star.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like a 'DNS can't resolve the local host name' error. What is the hostname of your machine? Can you ping your own hostname? If not, then you configured DNS wrongly. Rick Tom Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > last week I was trying to set-up stand alone DNS on my machine and > something happened. > > The 'sendmail' daemon takes ages to start at boot up, and xemacs and > netsacpe take five minuits to start in X. > > Any ideas would be welcomed. > > Thanks for your time, > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard J. Pontefract Email: rjp@kietra.u-net.com WWW: http://www.kietra.u-net.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message