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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 1:54 pm, Jon Lawrence wrote: > If possible you need to watch the initial boot up screen - the one which > says 'starting xxxx'. Find out which services is taking a long time to > start and if that service is not required, tell it not to start. take a look to see if any MTA (e.g sendmail/exim/qmail/courier) is starting up, as this often does reverse DNS lookups. Also check for apache, which may do dns lookups depdnding on how it is set up, and ntpdate (for obvious reasons). hdparm may well make any IDE machine work a lot faster, also .. ~ Theo - -- Theo Zourzouvillys <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://theo.me.uk/> - --------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ - --------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XMjz448CrwpTn6YRAl32AKCQhwzN6Y9m//ReyPZe8CxFa0Pt3wCg1pBl aRbfFVRRvpFXKypHmWRjVbk= =62p6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.