Tom Horsley wrote: >> I would have hoped that someone who can play with systemd >> in a sensible way might be able to suggest a solution.
> But for a (possibly) useful suggesting, you might try > my technique for working around utter failures in systemd > (which always seem to have something to do with networked > services). > > I make sure /etc/rc.d/rc.local is set to executable and > add lines like this to the end: > > /bin/bash -c 'sleep 5 ; systemctl restart ypbind.service' > /dev/null 2>&1 > < /dev/null & > > That starts one of the many services that normally fails > after a 5 second delay following boot. I have a whole list > of this with increasing delay times. Thanks for the suggestion, which I shall try out later. For the moment, I've installed Thunderbird, and am sending email through Tbird and reading email through KMail. I needed a quick replacement, and forgot gmail which also solved the problem. For the umteenth time, I'm wondering if it is time to give up KMail ... > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
