Barnaby Scott wrote:
Many thanks to all who have helped me on this one - I won't post a
message in response to every suggestion, but they have all helped -
thank you!
It turns out it was sendmail causing the delay, so now my /etc/rc.comf
reads:
hostname="frankbruno"
ifconfig_re0="DHCP"
keymap="uk.iso"
linux_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
saver="logo"
usbd_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
(Someone asked what was in this file). The last line that I have just
added does cure the problem. But...
...it does not cure the problem for me if I decide that I do want
sendmail! I could cross that bridge when I come to it, but I would
prefer to gain some insight here if anyone can bear any more on this topic.
Adding
127.0.0.1 frankbruno
to /etc/hosts did not cure the problem. Could that be because the lookup
that causes the delay is a reverse one? If so, it would be trying to
find a name for 192.168.0.4 (I think that's the one I have been getting
recently) which is still not in hosts.
I would rather not mess with the IP allocation if possible - having it
automatic is much more useful and means I cannot create condradictory
records in different places.
Looking in /var/run/dmesg.boot turned up nothing obvious to me at least,
booting in Safe Mode made no difference, and verbose logging turned up
nothing.
However, I did discover a tip posted a couple of years ago, and that was
to press ^T when the boot stalled. God knows what this does, but it
turned up the following response:
load: 0.85 cmd:sendmail 454 [kqread] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 1912k
I thinks that answers all the things that were suggested - can anyone
see a way of reinstating sendmail without the stalled boot process, and
without having to reserve specific IP addresses for each computer?
Barnaby Scott
Prequel: I know nothing about dhclient/DHCP interfaces other
than if I want one, I can put "ifconfig foo1="DHCP" in rc.conf.
If you can figure out what your address is post-booting, you
should be able to create a simple wrapper script and run it from
cron via the "@reboot" tag.
Pseudo-code:
sleep(5 min);
write "my.ip.ad.ress" >> /etc/hosts
sh /etc/rc.d/sendmail start
But, I'd strongly advise you to use a static IP if your
host needs to be an MTA. Otherwise, configure your MUA's
to use a real MTA (which have static IP's, DNS, etc., etc.).
Kevin Kinsey
--
I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired.
But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired.
-- Rita Gain
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