I installed Gentoo to VirtualBox and choosed net.* scripts to manipulate my network by adding it to autorun as "rc-update add net.eth0 default". My "/etc/conf.d/net" file contais only "config_eth0=«dhcp»", "dhcpcd" package is installed without adding it to any runlevel of rc-update. VirtualBox's build-in DHCP-server is used for recieving IP-address. Also empty file "/etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules" is created to prevent renaming eth0 interface. During system's startup eth0 successfully receives IP address from DHCP-server. But then it pause boot process for a while on "Cheking your config file /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf" and then again a few minutes on starting "syslog-ng" service. After the boot process continue with some pausing again after appearing of "This is <hostname>" string and then "login" invitaion appears. If I delete "net.eth0" from rc-update runlevels and add "dhcpcd" instead of it ("rc-update add dhcpcd default") then eth0 also recive IP-address but systemlog-ng starts quickly without any continuous delay. I also tried to switch on "rc-need net.eth0" and "rc-need net" options in "/etc/conf.d/syslog-ng" and also try "rc_intreractive=YES" mode in "/etc/rc.conf" but it didn't give any results. app-admin/syslog-ng-3.7.3 in installed. Should I give any additional information? Reproducible: Always
The problem seems to be resolved by adding "127.0.0.2 MYHOSTNAME.domain MYHOSTNAME" string to the file "/etc/hosts". Now systemlog-ng doesn't prevent a quick boot of system. Where "MYHOSTNAME" is the hostname of my virtualbox gentoo machine. Is it obligatory to have any mentions of current hostname in "/etc/hosts" file while setting up the network?
The more correct solution is that using syslog-ng with "net.*" scripts requires initial setting up of "/etc/hosts" file as described in the handbook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/System#The_hosts_file something like: # This defines the current system and must be set 127.0.0.1 tux.homenetwork tux localhost ::1 tux.homenetwork tux localhost where "tux" is the hostname that used in /etc/cond.f/hostname (hostname="tux") P.S. Also this initial setting up is required for successful starting of xorg-server by "startx" command. There is no information about it in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide). Maybe some handbook and wiki editing may be helpful to clarify that network configuring and especially of "/etc/hosts" is necessary to correct working of such service as System Logging and Xorg-Server.
