From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 16:27:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEAE37B405 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87ABF43ED1 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:27:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 86899 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 00:27:37 -0000 Received: from 202-6-144-158.ip.adam.com.au (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.144.158) by eden.adam.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 00:27:37 -0000 Message-ID: <3E14D935.8090407@adam.com.au> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 10:58:37 +1030 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020926 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail waiting? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Thanks in advance. -- Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message