Bug 679
| Summary: | Can't Ctrl-C system daemons which are stuck on DNS queries | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | aa8vb |
| Component: | redhat-release | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | aa8vb |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-01-04 20:33:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Thank you for the suggestion. It has been noted and will be considered for future Red Hat releases. |
Redhat 5.2 system daemons (e.g. sendmail, etc.) cannot be aborted/skipped by hitting Ctrl-C while they are starting up like you can on FreeBSD. Background: Several system daemons in addition to sendmail hang for several minutes when DNS is not properly configured (for example, in the process of setting up a new Redhat box), so without being able to skip these daemons on startup, the user has to wait 10-15 minutes before the machine is usable again, or perform an unsafe boot ("hit the reset button") and risk file system corruption. You ought to be able to hit Ctrl-C on the console to terminate these processes and continue boot-up without having to wait 1/4 hour to get to the prompt.