Bug#512206: exim4: Starting MTA without network conection (waiting a longer time in boot)

Renato S. Yamane yamane at diamondcut.com.br
Sun Jan 18 16:25:37 UTC 2009


Package: exim4
Version: 4.69-9
Severity: minor

If you power-on your laptop with *no* network conection, you need wait ~40sec in this boot step:
Starting MTA:

IMHO, I think that this service can be loaded in background.

Step to reproduce:
- Power-on your machine with NO ethernet cable and with Wireless card disabled.

Best regards,
Renato

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Sep-2008 18:26:35
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb 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 generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# 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='local'
dc_other_hostnames='mandachuva.domain'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:mandachuva.domain

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-9     support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.69-9     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4/drec:





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