Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "cyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wouldn't it be wiser to just add the hosts that it needs to lookup to your > /etc/hosts file? That'd be my first course of action... > > That way you don't have hard coded ip's in all of your configs either. In fact I have a mix. Since my home network uses DHCP

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-07 Thread cyn
wouldn't it be wiser to just add the hosts that it needs to lookup to your /etc/hosts file? That'd be my first course of action... That way you don't have hard coded ip's in all of your configs either. -cyn - This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the se

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "cyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wouldn't it be wiser to just add the hosts that it needs to lookup to your > /etc/hosts file? That'd be my first course of action... > > That way you don't have hard coded ip's in all of your configs either. In fact I have a mix. Since my home network uses DHCP

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-07 Thread cyn
wouldn't it be wiser to just add the hosts that it needs to lookup to your /etc/hosts file? That'd be my first course of action... That way you don't have hard coded ip's in all of your configs either. -cyn - This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the se

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Auke Jilderda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/11/2002 (10:23) : > I installed "whereami" and am running exim as daemon. OK I'll try it. Thanks -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol «.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Auke Jilderda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/11/2002 (10:23) : > I installed "whereami" and am running exim as daemon. OK I'll try it. Thanks -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol «.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-06 Thread Auke Jilderda
I installed "whereami" and am running exim as daemon. I modified the /etc/init.d/networking to check whether there is a link before trying to bring up an adapter to prevent having to wait for DHCP time-outs. You can do that by replacing the "ifup -a" with "mii-tool eth0 2>&1 |

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-06 Thread Auke Jilderda
I installed "whereami" and am running exim as daemon. I modified the /etc/init.d/networking to check whether there is a link before trying to bring up an adapter to prevent having to wait for DHCP time-outs. You can do that by replacing the "ifup -a" with "mii-tool eth0 2>&1 |

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (20:07) : > > I guarantee that exim slows down when you start it unconnected to a > network and it needs to do dns lookups. In fact, if you can time the > delay to multiples of 30 seconds I'd guarantee that's your problem > (because typicall

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (19:01) : > > I'm betting you need to change some of your local addresses in > > exim.conf from domain names to IPs. > > No exim runs fine when I have network and also when I don't run it as > da

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (19:01) : > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > That's two questions. I have exim running on mine and

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 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

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (20:07) : > > I guarantee that exim slows down when you start it unconnected to a > network and it needs to do dns lookups. In fact, if you can time the > delay to multiples of 30 seconds I'd guarantee that's your problem > (because typicall

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > 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?

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > 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?

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (19:01) : > > I'm betting you need to change some of your local addresses in > > exim.conf from domain names to IPs. > > No exim runs fine when I have network and also when I don't run it as > da

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (19:01) : > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > That's two questions. I have exim running on mine and

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 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

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
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 nete

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > 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?

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > 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?

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
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 oth

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
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 nete

Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi 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? One annoyance with netenv is that it didn't

Re: Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
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 oth

Problem with daemon when offline

2002-11-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi 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? One annoyance with netenv is that it didn't