Re: starting exim4 takes ages
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> writes:
>> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to
>>> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has
>>> started.
>>
>> Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding.
>> exim4 does quite some DNS lookups during startup and if name
>> resolution is not possible, you get the behavior you are seeing.
> The network is up and the name server is responding.
Did you test this during the boot sequenze oder after?
Is your network configured statically or via DHCP? If the latter, the
aquisition of an IP might take to long.
Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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