Re: Problem with daemon when offline
Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) :
> 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.
But you are not running it as a daemon you are using inetd I bet.
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