From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 15:24: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nameserver.austclear.com.au (nameserver.austclear.com.au [192.83.119.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA3937B719 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:23:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by nameserver.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA34774; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:23:55 +1100 (EST) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09475; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:23:54 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200103212323.KAA09475@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hang at daemon start-up In-Reply-To: Message from John of "Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:08:46 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:23:54 +1100 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG papalia@UDel.Edu said: > I recently started having trouble on start-up. Everything appears to > be going really really well, up until the point where the "Standard > daemons" are started. It loads Inet, Cron, Printer, and Sendmail, and > then hangs right there. After a while (1-5 minutes) I'll ^C and the > boot-up will proceed seemingly without trouble. After start-up > completes, however, there's a problem with sendmail processes, showing > up as: > root 207 0.0 0.5 620 432 ?? Is 5:09PM 0:00.01 /bin/sh > -c /usr/local/bin/reboot.reminders | /usr/sbin/sendmail root > root 215 0.0 1.3 2316 1228 ?? S 5:09PM 0:00.05 > /usr/sbin/sendmail root > root 220 0.0 1.4 2316 1344 ?? Ss 5:09PM 0:00.06 > /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t > root 221 0.0 1.4 2316 1360 ?? Ss 5:09PM 0:00.05 > /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t > root 222 0.0 1.5 2316 1376 ?? Ss 5:09PM 0:00.05 > /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t > Any ideas what's going on? What version of FreeBSD and Sendmail are you running? Have you tried looking in /var/log/maillog? I would suggest that sendmail is having a problem with DNS, most probably resolving it's own hostname. Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message