centos at 911networks.com wrote: > Benjamin Smith wrote: >> I'd really like to know what this turned out to be... > > It was sendmail that would hang during the boot. At that point the > startup would wait, wait and wait... I do not need sendmail, so I > disabled it from the startup. <insert qmail|postfix|courier jab here> >> My advice? Don't host more than about 2-4 hour drive from home... > Not an option... Nor for me, that's why I endeavor to keep a duplicate of my production server locally to try out such things. Of course that doesn't save me from things like fat-fingered iptables scripts. I did so today and my host (Server Beach) was super quick to console in and run the commands I specified. JT