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Re: Problem with daemon when offline



From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+debian@pvv.org>

> If I for example set up exim to be run as a daemon, my laptop willhang
> for several second when I boot it and it is not connected to a network.
> Is there a way to avoid this? I was looking at netenv, is this the
> correct program to use? Are there others?

That's two questions.  I have exim running on mine and I haven't noticed a delay
at startup when I'm not on the network, so I'm pretty sure you can avoid that.

There are any number of schemes for network detection.  whereami (see recent
thread "How to manager [sic] different network environments?"), intuitively,
laptop-net, laptop-netconf, guessnet are all capable of _detecting_ your network
connections.  ifplugd and at least one of the above can detect when the network
cable is inserted/removed even if the pcmcia card is left in.
--
derek



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