> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brian Astill > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Sendmail waiting? > > > My silly system ... Using 4.6 RELEASE, 1.1G Athlon ABit KT7A VIA > chipset - running FVCool permanently in idle mode to maintain > CPU cool > temperature. The really silly bit is ... > > I don't switch off every day, but I have noticed that, on restart, > loading sometimes waits "for ever" at "installing standard daemons" > sendmail. Last night the wait was 2 full minutes, and the effect was > for me not to be able to get X and worse - "getty repeating > too fast - > sleeping for 30 seconds" During that sleep, I could work from the > console normally, but then the screen blanked and fluttered > for several > seconds before the sleeping phase was again reimposed. > > This morning - not expecting too much - I switched on and this time > loading swept past sendmail without delay and everything is working > normally again. > > I do not propose to switch off for some time. :-) > > Q1. Can anyone suggest any explanation for the sendmail-wait problem > and subsequent horrors? > Q2. I am cvsupping and ready to update to the latest stable. > Is this > sound, and is it in any way likely to resolve my problem with > v 4.6 RELEASE? >
My experience is that if your network goes down or DNS cannot easily resolve your name, sendmail will pause for a bit. I believe installing a caching(sp) name server on the box will probably help out. I cannot remember the command to install it, so check the archives, but it is really simple. Hope this helps. > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Brian > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
