Sendmail for one can hang for stupidly long times waiting in dead resolvers before allowing the system to continue booting. That's the most common thing, RC scripts hanging waiting on external resources while you're locked out simply because sshd starts ridiculously late. Very common problem.
On Wednesday, September 23, 2015, Glenn English <g...@slsware.net> wrote: > Mildly OT from a profound BSD noob: > > Why is it necessary to have SSH working before the system has finished > booting? That 'Welcome' menu times out, so I can't think of a reason, or > find one from Goggle, for needing console access after a power failure > reboot. What am I unaware of? > > -- > Glenn English > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org <javascript:;> mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org > <javascript:;>" > -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
