From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 21:41:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8DD16A405 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 21:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc6-cmbg1-0-0-cust82.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.10.236.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B0543D58 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 21:40:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.62 #0) id 1Ff1r8-000H2j-5g by authid for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 22:40:58 +0100 Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 22:40:57 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060513214057.GB51338@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44662536.4080700@waywood.co.uk> <20060513204032.GA51338@catflap.slightlystrange.org> <20060513172622.F3A7.GERARD@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060513172622.F3A7.GERARD@seibercom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: danielby@slightlystrange.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on catflap.slightlystrange.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: very slow boot (newbie) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 21:41:03 -0000 --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:27:29PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > Daniel Bye wrote: >=20 > > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: > > > It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.com= f=20 > > > reads: > > >=20 > > > sendmail_enable=3D"NONE" > >=20 > > This is fine, but according to rc.sendmail(8) `NONE' is deprecated and > > will be removed in a future release (but, to be honest, it's been going > > to be removed in a future release for quite some time now... ;-). It's > > more typing, but the preferred way to disable sendmail these days is > > this: > >=20 > > sendmail_enable=3D"NO" > > sendmail_submit_enable=3D"NO" > > sendmail_outbound_enable=3D"NO" > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable=3D"NO" > >=20 > > This prevents any of the various sendmail daemons from starting. >=20 > In that case, what handles the delivery of mail locally? ACK. Good point. I use exim as my MTA, so per default always disable all of sendmail's services. I have never used sendmail, so must admit defeat on this one! From reading rc.sendmail(8) more carefully, I would think setting `sendmail_submit_enable=3D"YES"' should do the trick, but I am by no means certain... Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEZlJpixf5fBYiFmoRAnW+AKDFWddSUnqzmUBYZh8uwSKdKz8lUgCfa1zB n2+if9aaKBUnabDoyRpU02Q= =/6VY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i9LlY+UWpKt15+FH--