Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:49:59 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start? Message-ID: <73ADFF9FEC26D94D4727301D@MightyAtom.tdx.co.uk>
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Hi, I've noticed on our systems (9.0-Stable, amd64) that starting smartd at boot time massively extends the startup time of the box. I think I've traced this down to smartd, and our use of the '-M test' config option (which sends a test message, apparently forking to 'mail' - and, as the config man page says - it will block until that command returns). For whatever reason (networking not stable at that point in time, MTA not started yet etc.) - on our machines this leaves smartd handing around for minutes - before it returns, the machine starts up (and the status emails arrive). Can anyone think of a 'simple' fix for this? - Is there anything I can do to '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd' to make it run later in the startup process? Does the dreaded '/etc/rc.local' still get run -after- everything else? (Worst case I could launch it from there). Thanks, -Karl
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