Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:52:12 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net> Subject: Re: Sendmail waiting? Message-ID: <3E14F3D4.6010803@adam.com.au> References: <002201c2b2c2$6f49c3e0$0200a8c0@bartxp>
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Derrick Ryalls wrote: >>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. > > Michael K. Smith wrote: > >> Whenever I see that hang on sendmail it is due to a network >> failure. Usually the machine cannot contact its IP default gateway. > Thanks, guys - but why would this be an intermittent problem? And - why would it affect my access to X? The Good Lord knows what was going on last night with the repeating getty! :-) Everything is just fine, now - my real problem is how can I keep it that way? That of course requires my identifying the cause. One clue - I recently went broadband with an ADSL modem and that modem is set up as my default gateway. It is a Netcomm NB1300. That caching name server idea sounds good. I will have a search on FBSD org for that. That still wouldn't identify the cause, though. :-( -- Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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