At 08:35 PM 8/14/02 -0700, Craig wrote: >Hi folks, >Whether I use my Bering floppy or my really cool, new bootable Bering CD >(yeehaw!), I get this message on boot-up- Starting system log daemon: >syslogd and it seems to take a really long time to get beyond it. Is >that "normal" for Bering??? I'd say it takes, maybe, 2 or 3 minutes to >get beyond that. What do you think? Thanks!
It means the system has a problem with DNS resolution. DNS requests time out after 3 minutes. I forget now what DNS thingie syslog is doing on startup, but it is some sort of reverse lookup, possibly of the host's own IP address --- you can tell by checking your logs to see what is reported with an IP address instead of FQN. To eliminate the delay, fix the DNS problem. (I'm calling it DNS, but that's not really correct; it's a resolver problem, which can be fixed by a suitable /etc/hosts file as well as by getting DNS working.) -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
