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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:30:24 +0300 (MSK)
From:      der <der@pc759.cs.msu.su>
To:        Mark Jacobs <pc759!gate.net!root@pc759.cs.msu.su>
Cc:        pc759!FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-questions@pc759.cs.msu.su
Subject:   Re: Sendmail at startup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912261827080.12575-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912251415540.30437-100000@main.jacobs.household>

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On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, it was written:

>Is there anyway to force sendmail not to cause a dialup connection at
>bootup time? I just enabled automatic startup of PPP in rc.conf and the
>boot process hangs until a connection is made.

Exactly my case - but i put ppp -auto AFTER sendmail start... and it hangs for
a while. The solution is - put the name of you local host in /etc/hosts, to
escape DNS lookup.

P.S. Such cases easily can be examinated via ktrace utility.
---------------
Alex Derevyanko.



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