From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 29 12:00:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16833 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16743 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:00:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA16092; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809291900.MAA16092@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Subject: Re: bin/8085: sendmail startup could be backgrounded Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/8085; it has been noted by GNATS. From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: hsu@clinet.fi Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/8085: sendmail startup could be backgrounded Date: 29 Sep 1998 20:50:49 +0200 Heikki Suonsivu writes: > 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. I'd like to add a comment to this: on a network-deprived system, any attempt to run sendmail (even to just check the mail queue) will take ages. I can understand that successful name lookup is necessary for smtp operation, but for listing the f****ing mail queue? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message