From: "Derek Broughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If I for example set up exim to be run as a daemon, my laptop willhang > > for several second when I boot it and it is not connected to a network. > > Is there a way to avoid this? I was looking at netenv, is this the > > correct program to use? Are there others? > > That's two questions. I have exim running on mine and I haven't noticed a delay > at startup when I'm not on the network, so I'm pretty sure you can avoid that. > > There are any number of schemes for network detection. whereami (see recent > thread "How to manager [sic] different network environments?"), intuitively, > laptop-net, laptop-netconf, guessnet are all capable of _detecting_ your network > connections. ifplugd and at least one of the above can detect when the network > cable is inserted/removed even if the pcmcia card is left in. senselessly replying to my own post (sorry, I have a cold and my brain isn't working right :-) ) Another option is to just trigger your networking daemons from "ifup"/"ifdown" - but exim is one I expect to be up whether or not I'm connected, which is why you need to fix it anyway.
