Mark Sargent wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a coupla queries about my 2 latest installs of CentOS 4-3. When I > first installed and logged in as the initial user, everything went well, > and the system was fast. A reboot, and 2nd login gave the same. But, > upon connecting to the net, the system hung at sendmail for almost > 4mins, and then gave an error at login about not finding the host, and > that Gnome may not work correctly, with options of Continue or try > Again. After that, the system has become extensively slow. Any ideas why > this would be this way? This is the 2nd machine, different locations, > different media, that this has happened. Rather annoying. Cheers. Do the affected boxes have a proper hostname? cat /etc/sysconfig/network I seem to recall seeing that gnome complaint under such circumstances... -Andy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4492 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060502/79fa864f/attachment-0004.bin>