On Thu, 13 May 1999, Collins M. Ben wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > > I have Debian running on a laptop that I just purchased, and I have ssh > > installed. However, since this is a laptop, its not always connected to > > the network...is there some easy way to keep sshd from pausing the boot > > sequence for 5 minutes if there is no network? > > If you don't want sshd running at all you can just do: > > update-rc.d -f ssh remove > > This will remove the links in /etc/rc?.d but leaves the /etc/init.d/ssh > script. You will need to run `/etc/init.d/ssh start` to start sshd > manually, but you wont need that unless you plan on logging _into_ the > laptop.
Yes, I do plan on logging into the laptop remotely. And I don't want to remove the daemon from the startup...I just don't want it to pause for 5 minutes when there is no network. :) Why exactly does sshd freeze on startup, is it trying to do a DNS lookup or something?