Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:41:12 GMT From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/8085: sendmail startup could be backgrounded Message-ID: <199809291441.OAA21184@hauki.clinet.fi>
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>Number: 8085 >Category: bin >Synopsis: sendmail startup could be backgrounded >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 29 07:50:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Heikki Suonsivu >Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386 >Environment: FreeBSD-STABLE (and possibly later versions) >Description: sendmail tends to take ages to start up on host which has problems with its network connection (horribly long name service timeout?). This is unpleasant as the network connection (or routing protocol) may be started by a local rc file, thus jamming the boot process for long time. >How-To-Repeat: Break connectivity between a host and the world, reboot, and wait. >Fix: Sendmail should daemonize itself first and then go on with its lengthy discussions with the name server. As sendmail is not critical to get the boot process through, mail may get queued, but it will be sent out later anyway, so it could be backgrounded in /etc/rc. A quick workaround is to start sendmail in local rc file with & >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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