On 2010-03-21 08:25, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:On 2010-03-21 05:59, Merciadri Luca wrote:Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:I don't know answers to all your questions but sometimes I have had similar problems. I fixed the slow startup by answering "Yes" to the debconf question Keep number of DNS-queries minimal (Dial-on-Demand)? Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" as root.It worked like a charm. It now starts in less than one sec. This parameter should be set as a default setting, shouldn't it?The root cause has got to be that either (a) the network isn't fully up yet, or (b) there's some misconfiguration in /etc/hosts, /etc/mailcap, /etc/exim4, ... where it's looking "out there" for something it can't find.I think that my network is set as fully up only a little bit later. That must be the problem, as the rest has already been checked thoroughly.
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