John O'Hagan wrote: > H.S. wrote > > >>I commented out the "auto etho0" and rebooted. The boot process stalled >>at "starting MTA ... exim" (or some such thing) step. So, it didn't work >>for me. > > > I also had this problem when I first installed sarge; in that case it was > fixed by reconfiguring exim4 (dpkg-reconfigure exim4) . I can't for the life > of me remember what the precise option was; but it lets you prevent exim4 > from trying to connect to the network on boot. I'm guessing that this is a > separate problem from your network issue, and I hope this tip fixes it for > you. > > Cheers, > > John > >
Thanks John and Marc, I will reconfiguring exim4 a try this evening. BTW, if exim4's inability to connect to the internet is the problem, shouldn't exim4 timeout trying this? regards, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
