Re: Problem with daemon when offline

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca> wrote on 05/11/2002 (19:01) :
> From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol@pvv.org>
> 
> > Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) :
> > > From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+debian@pvv.org>
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> No.  It runs from /etc/rc2.d/S20exim

Check /etc/inetd.conf

if you have:

#:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
smtp            stream  tcp     nowait  mail    /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs

if you do it is not running as a daemon.

> I'm betting you need to change some of your local addresses in
> exim.conf from domain names to IPs.

No exim runs fine when I have network and also when I don't run it as
daemon.

Regards,
Preben Randhol