Ron Johnson wrote: > 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. >> > > On my system (and probably yours), networking is started by: > /etc/rcS.d/S07hostname.sh # HOSTNAME="$(cat /etc/hostname) > /etc/rcS.d/S09ifupdown-clean # check out /etc/default/ifupdown > /etc/rcS.d/S14pppd-dns # meaningless on *my* system > /etc/rcS.d/S14resolvconf # processes /etc/network/interfaces > /etc/rcS.d/S15ifupdown # ???? > /etc/rcS.d/S16networking # runs 'ifup -a' > > And the MTA comes later at: > /etc/rc3.d/S04postfix > Apparently not here. I must have modified something one day. Weird! The problem is solved. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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