From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 11:48:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F08A37BA5E for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:48:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id WAA30760; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:51:26 +0200 Message-ID: <393FEA95.37E0CD7A@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:48:53 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootup stops at sendmail References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zhihui Zhang wrote: > I just configure lp0 interface on my portable and try to bring it up > automatically by modifying /etc/rc.conf. As a result, the bootup process > stops when starting standard daemons: inetd cron sendmail. How to fix > this? A FreeBSD machine should be able to boot when it is temporarily not > connected to the network, right? BTW, I use parallel cable to link two > machines. sendmail alaways connects the net when booting. You enabled a network device which is marked up, thus sendmail waits for a couple of minutes until the DNS packets it tries all time out. Either configure /etc/host.conf to point to your own (caching-only) DNS server, or change sendmail boot options to "-q". HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message