From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 2 18:42:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA26337 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.interactive.net (root@onyx.interactive.net [208.192.224.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA26332 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luddite.org (host019.madison.interactive.net [208.192.224.119]) by onyx.interactive.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20057 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:42:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sachs@localhost) by luddite.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA00288; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:44:38 -0400 (EDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2.2, start_if.tun0 and sendmail References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.101) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Sachs Date: 02 Jun 1997 21:44:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: Dan Busarow's message of "Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:22:17 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <8767vwmpdm.fsf@luddite.org> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: 6!-I&o^[[HP+0~O~}d2Zf@Pbof:|>j5^*W$QOR"&)JYcHT.@-"AhAXLg3vioV79Ri3JMp/a e3QD@Z$1Ot@'j1/A Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dan Busarow writes: > On 1 Jun 1997, Jay Sachs wrote: > > For whatever reason, sendmail won't daemonize until the ppp connection > > is established. The problem with this is that the boot-up process > > sendmail tries to resolve all of your interfaces at startup (in daemon > mode) in order to build an initial Cw > > You can try to add your host in /etc/hosts if it's not there already. > Another, ugly, option would be to remove the initial resolving which > is done in daemon.c (IIRC). Make sure you build your own Cw if you > do this. Putting the host in /etc/hosts didn't change things. And instead of modifying the sendmail sources, I'd much prefer to edit /etc/rc and start up sendmail in the background (which is what I did). -Jay