On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 22:50 -0400, William Case wrote: > Boinc is probably starting so soon after NetworkManager that the > network is not up yet. It's technically a bug in Boinc that it > doesn't wait for a network connection and periodically re-try to > send/grab the data.
I'd agree with that. Likewise for other services, particularly if you have a configuration to listen to all interfaces, without specifying addresses for them. > But for the moment, you can add the line: > > NETWORKWAIT=yes > > to /etc/sysconfig/network and startup will block for 10 seconds or > until a network connection is up, whichever is sooner. > > This solution avoids the restart. Maybe this will work for sendmail > as well. Though, what will happen with the various services if the network goes down and up again? (As it can.) Will they stall, will they recover automatically? A network can go down (especially if you're on dialup or wireless), and DHCP servers can change IPs on you. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
