Re: Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-14 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 13 November 2012 11:14 -0600 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: 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

Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-13 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, 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

Re: Issues with smartd starting up at boot time - delays sever start?

2012-11-13 Thread Dan Nelson
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,