On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:07:44AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:09:24PM +0200, Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am working with debian unstable, and when I boot the system, I will > > sometimes get a very long wait on 'Staring MTA:'. > > I am experiencing the same delay when booting with no network cable. Its > a network timeout. Try disabling starting the network interface in > /etc/network/interfaces and see if that kills the wait, or boot with a > connected network.
The same? What you describe sounds like a dhcp lookup delay. You can try reducing the timeout. For that reason I don't start the external network interface in rc.S . I "manually" start it in the standard rc[2345] . > > > I am working with exim4. > > The only thing I want to configure exim4 to do is to send mail using an > > external smtp server. I receive mail from an external pop server, and that > > works fine. > > I think you need to configure exim for mail sent by smart host, no > local mail delivery. There should be local delivery: all messages sent from root. And all the messages from fetchmail . I think "Internet with smarthost" fits here. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
