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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:04:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: the maschines stops too long while ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611230321.11999E-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980607105100.malte@webmore.com>

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On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Malte Lance wrote:

> 
> On 06-Jun-98 FreeBSD User wrote:
> > This usually happens to me when I am not connected to my network and I
> > boot.  I just do a CTRL+C to get past it.
> 
> Don't do that !!! It may happen that you kick off the script instead
> of just sendmail, which means that just some parts of the script
> will be executed.

Sorry to disappoint you but sendmail is run from /etc/rc and in all the
times I've done the ^C there I've neer once cstopped the bootup.  It would
be a bug if the signal was passed to the parent shell.

> Better setup your /etc/hosts file and change the order in /etc/host.conf
> to:
> 

This is the Correct(tm) solution anyway.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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