From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 16:50:55 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 8C9D237B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from truman.datasphereweb.com (12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com [12.231.81.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB96343ED1 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:50:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 25380 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 00:50:49 -0000 Received: from 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com (HELO bartxp) (12.229.238.38) by 12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 00:50:49 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: Subject: RE: Sendmail waiting? Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:52:42 -0800 Message-ID: <002201c2b2c2$6f49c3e0$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <3E14D935.8090407@adam.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian Astill > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:29 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Sendmail waiting? >=20 >=20 > My silly system ... Using 4.6 RELEASE, 1.1G Athlon ABit KT7A VIA=20 > chipset - running FVCool permanently in idle mode to maintain=20 > CPU cool=20 > temperature. The really silly bit is ... >=20 > I don't switch off every day, but I have noticed that, on restart,=20 > loading sometimes waits "for ever" at "installing standard daemons"=20 > sendmail. Last night the wait was 2 full minutes, and the effect was=20 > for me not to be able to get X and worse - "getty repeating=20 > too fast -=20 > sleeping for 30 seconds" During that sleep, I could work from the=20 > console normally, but then the screen blanked and fluttered=20 > for several=20 > seconds before the sleeping phase was again reimposed. >=20 > This morning - not expecting too much - I switched on and this time=20 > loading swept past sendmail without delay and everything is working=20 > normally again. >=20 > I do not propose to switch off for some time. :-) >=20 > Q1. Can anyone suggest any explanation for the sendmail-wait problem=20 > and subsequent horrors? > Q2. I am cvsupping and ready to update to the latest stable.=20 > Is this=20 > sound, and is it in any way likely to resolve my problem with=20 > v 4.6 RELEASE? >=20 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. >=20 > -- > Brian >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message