From owner-freebsd-net Thu May 4 11: 0:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (r148m178.cybercable.tm.fr [195.132.148.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7423337B557 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 11:00:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Received: from cybercable.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by gw.herbelot.nom (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA32095; Tue, 2 May 2000 19:50:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Message-ID: <390F1276.8174F3BE@cybercable.fr> Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 19:37:58 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G.B.Naidu" Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail hangs while booting... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "G.B.Naidu" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have posted a questoin earleir regarding a panic while booting. I didnt > get any response. > > While still struggling to boot, I am getting some more strange problems. > Some times the sendmail daemon hangs while booting. The kernel files that > I have changed are: if_ethersubr.c, ip_output.c, rtsock.c Generally, sendmail is a bit slow to boot, as it tries to resolve the hostname of your machine via dns : if your hostname is not declared in a DNS, sendmail has to wait the timeout duration before finishing its startup. -- Thierry Herbelot ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN /"\ Dir. technique LUCCAS AGAINST HTML MAIL & NEWS \ / tout le cable sur http://www.luccas.org PAS DE HTML DANS X un CV : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot LES COURRIELS / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message