Re: emacs delay on OpenBSD when network not attached

[Matt Armstrong]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 08:50:58PM -0800, Todd Wells wrote:
> I'm having a frustrating emacs problem on my OpenBSD machine.
> 
> If my network cable is not plugged in, emacs takes a very long time to
> start, sometimes apparently never starting (okay I kill it after
> waiting 3+ minutes).
> 
> Since I'm building this machine to be a firewall, I can't have it
> connected to the network until it's completely hardened, lest it be
> compromised before all security measures have been implemented.
> 
> If the network cable is plugged in, it fires right up.  I really need
> to use emacs in this scenario if at all possible (and I can't afford
> interminable delays every time I launch it).
> 
> Does emacs care about the network?  Has anyone heard of this problem?
> Is there some sort of debug or verbose switch I can pass as an
> argument to emacs to see what's happening while it's trying to start
> up?

Emacs is probably just trying to determine the host name.  If you have
an entry in /etc/hosts for your machine's IP address, it won't need to
go to the net.

-- 
matt