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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!not-for-mail From: eh3@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Eckart Hofmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is emacs waiting for? Date: 3 Jun 1997 08:49:33 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5n0ept$fnd@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> References: <3393186D.7DC8@nospam.com> Reply-To: Isegrim@Wunder-Nett.org NNTP-Posting-Host: irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961126] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42101 In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> wrote: > When I run emacs, instead of coming right up, it pauses > for a long time (over a minute I think, but I haven't timed it). During > this time, I can tell (by looking at the LEDs on the UTP hub which this > PC is attached to) that some small message is being sent on the > network every few seconds, but nothing is responding. I've never seen > emacs wait for something on the network before coming up. Does > anyone know what this is all about, and how I go about fixing it > so that it behaves normally? IMHO emacs waits for an answer from bind. You should have a look into /etc/host.conf. I "solved" this problem (my FreeBSD box isn't attached to a network) when I've commented out "bind" in /etc/host.conf. > I certainly don't want to have to > twiddle my thumbs for a minute every time I want to edit a file. You should start an editor, not a lifestyle ;-) Regards, Eckart