On Thursday 23 March 2006 02:09, Nix wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, David Lang uttered the following: > > when you do ifup debian immediatly attempts to startup sendmail > > (apparently by doing make as you see here). if you can't do name > > resolution until other interfaces come up you end up with a 30 second > > delay in your machine booting.
> I actually do exactly the same thing in my firewall UML instance --- but > then its entire purpose is to route packets and act as a barrier between > my machine and the net so this is hardly a catastrophe, and by that > point the daemon which kicks my crappy router until it brings the line > up has been started, so it's all asynchronous and causes no net delay... > ... but if the interface startup doesn't proceed asynchronously with > respect to daemon startup, then it's bad, indeed. But look there, make it's complaining and then DHCP is starting. His problem was just that he didn't enable UML_NET_TUNTAP driver. About make being in /usr, I guess that since sendmail configuration must be compiled from m4 source (otherwise it's too hard to write), when one originall installs sendmail-cf he modifies the files and runs "make" there. Debian there is trying to be smart anyway and helping the user which forgot "make" (and possibly will skip "make" if ! [ -x /usr/bin/make ]), however the problem lies in the setup somewhere (I hope that a legitimate setup wouldn't give such a result, or I'll want to share what these maintainers smoked :-) ). -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger with Voice: chiama da PC a telefono a tariffe esclusive http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
