In the last episode (Nov 13), Karl Pielorz said: > I've noticed on our systems (9.0-Stable, amd64) that starting smartd at > boot time massively extends the startup time of the box. > > I think I've traced this down to smartd, and our use of the '-M test' > config option (which sends a test message, apparently forking to 'mail' - > and, as the config man page says - it will block until that command > returns). > > For whatever reason (networking not stable at that point in time, MTA not > started yet etc.) - on our machines this leaves smartd handing around for > minutes - before it returns, the machine starts up (and the status emails > arrive). > > Can anyone think of a 'simple' fix for this? - Is there anything I can do > to '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smartd' to make it run later in the startup > process?
Try adding "mail" to the REQUIRE: line, since sendmail has that in its PROVIDES: line. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"