Date: 02 Jun 1997 21:44:37 -0400 From: Jay Sachs <sachs@interactive.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2.2, start_if.tun0 and sendmail Message-ID: <8767vwmpdm.fsf@luddite.org> In-Reply-To: Dan Busarow's message of "Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:22:17 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970601161918.2163C-100000@cedb>
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Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> 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
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