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by chousuke 4280 days ago
My FreeBSD system has a 30-second timeout during which the entire boot process is halted because it waits for a default route to the internet... which it won't get, because I haven't configured one.

It's pretty dumb, and not enough of a problem for me that I'd figure out how to work around it, but it's a pretty good example.
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allegory 4280 days ago
Just set in rc.conf:

   defaultrouter="NO"
It shouldn't hang.
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ash 4280 days ago
I don't think this 30-second timeout is a bug in FreeBSD or in rc. You may want your server to wait for the network to become available. Ubuntu Server has the same "waiting for network" timeout:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/63456/waiting-for-network-con...

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vidarh 4280 days ago
But the only reason this is necessary is when the boot system isn't smart enough to start whatever can safely be started through proper dependencies.

My experience is that a substantial amount of time is wasted weeding out undesired timeouts in startup scripts, because they lead to increasing downtime.

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