Re: Starting MTA:

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:28:35 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> in the booting sequence of Debian lenny I see a line  saying
> 
> Starting MTA:
> 
> It  "takes ages" until  Debian comes up with "exim4". Thus booting
> takes quite some time.

Check exim's configuration for DNS queries; you can do that with this
command:

awk '/exim4.*dns/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat

If you see "Value: false" in the output, like this:

Name: exim4/dc_minimaldns
Template: exim4/dc_minimaldns
Value: false
Owners: exim4-config
Flags: seen

then you can try to run (as root):

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

and answer "Yes" to the question "Keep number of DNS-queries minimal
(Dial-on-Demand)?" That normally helps to reduce the start-up time of
the exim daemon.

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