Bug#376136: exim4: Long delay at boot when iface is unplugged

[michaelm]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.62-2
Severity: minor


There's a noticeable delay (about a minute or a bit less) for starting
exim at boot when the eth0 here is not connected to a switch. If it's
plugged, it normally starts immediately.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.62 #1 built 24-Jun-2006 09:00:20
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
#dc_smarthost='smtpgate.uel.ac.uk'
dc_smarthost='mailgate.forthnet.gr'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
mailname:www0.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.1-fs
Locale: LANG=el_GR, LC_CTYPE=el_GR (charmap=ISO-8859-7)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.62-2     support files for all exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.62-2     lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

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