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.
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Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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