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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:41:12 GMT
From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
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Subject: bin/8085: sendmail startup could be backgrounded
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>Number:         8085
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sendmail startup could be backgrounded
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 29 07:50:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Heikki Suonsivu
>Organization:
Clinet, Espoo, Finland
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:

FreeBSD-STABLE (and possibly later versions)

>Description:

sendmail tends to take ages to start up on host which has problems with its
network connection (horribly long name service timeout?).  This is
unpleasant as the network connection (or routing protocol) may be started
by a local rc file, thus jamming the boot process for long time.

>How-To-Repeat:

Break connectivity between a host and the world, reboot, and wait.

>Fix:

Sendmail should daemonize itself first and then go on with its lengthy
discussions with the name server.

As sendmail is not critical to get the boot process through, mail may get
queued, but it will be sent out later anyway, so it could be backgrounded
in /etc/rc.

A quick workaround is to start sendmail in local rc file with &

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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