[H-GEN] amd

[Paul Gearon]

I mentioned this yesterday on #humbug and I was wondering if anyone 
could help me please.

When amd starts on my machine (running RH5.1) it takes over a minute 
to start.  As a couple of people suggested yesterday, this is 
probably due to a name server timeout.  The thing is, I didn't have a 
name server set up for that machine (I do now - but it's my ISP and 
ppp doesn't start at boot so amd won't find it).  I also haven't done 
any fiddling with NFS, so I can't see why it would be looking for any 
other computers on the network.  In case it's relevant, the machine 
does have a network card in it, but currently isn't connected to any 
other machines, and didn't know about any other machines until ppp 
was configured.

Anyway, I went looking through /etc/amd.conf and I found the 
following:

/defaults fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/root/${rfs};opts=nosuid,nodev
*       rhost:=${key};type:=host;rfs:=/

Unfortunately I con't see how this relates to the man/info pages for 
amd.conf.

The problem isn't critical (amd _does_ finally start) but it is 
really annoying.  Any suggestions?

TIA
Paul
Paul Gearon
gearon at computer.org

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