Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 23:59:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: sachs@interactive.net (Jay Sachs) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2, start_if.tun0 and sendmail Message-ID: <199706012159.XAA04580@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <87zptarrfx.fsf@luddite.org> from Jay Sachs at "Jun 1, 97 04:36:34 pm"
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> > My 'net connection is made solely via PPP by the following line in > /etc/start_if.tun0: > > /usr/sbin/ppp -ddial ondemand >/dev/null 2>&1 > > sendmail is configured in /etc/rc.conf with > > sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO). > sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory > > For whatever reason, sendmail won't daemonize until the ppp connection > is established. The problem with this is that the boot-up process [ ... ] > I understand that one other option is to put the ppp startup in > rc.local, in which case sendmail just breezes by. But I'd like to > start up the ppp connection ASAP. What does /var/log/maillog show? I once had this problem and the reason was an "unknown" interface address on a point to point interface (10.0.0.1) During bootup sendmail just stood there and I had to send ^C to it to proceed with booting. The line in maillog complained about this address not being resolvabel to a host name. So I put 10.0.0.1 dummy in /etc/hosts and sendmail started happily thereafter. Wolfgang
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