Re: why "Starting MTA: exim4" take so much time?
On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:02, Serena Cantor wrote:
> During sarge installation, I select 3rd option (local delivery). Each time
> it boots, starting MTA take too much time, I have to remove it from
> /etc/rc2.d.
>
> Is there any problem with that?
AFAIK you should have some kind of MTA on your system even if you don't use it
yourself, as some programs use it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I seem to remember having a similar slow-startup issue which was fixed by
running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config (as root), and answering "No" to the
final rather confusing question about Dial-on-demand. This stops exim4 from
doing DNS lookups at boot.
Might help...
John
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