On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:56 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > I have a similar problem to Matthias. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 no longer > returns, so spamd, sendmail, saslauthd, etc. never start up. It used to > work... In my case, the interface is up, but `/etc/init.d/net.eth0 > status' says "starting". If I try to start, say, sendmail, it says > > WARNING: sendmail is scheduled to start when net.eth0 has started. > > and it never starts. Something has changed in the last couple of weeks, > and I don't know what it is. I'm using hotplug. > Of course I meant "ifplugd".
Anyway, I figured out what my problem was. I was starting eth0 twice, once through an rc script, and once with ifplugd. When I zapped the rc script (rc-update del net.eth0), things started work better. --- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
