Re: hdd spindown + wifi question
Jon, 2003-Mar-28 10:49 -0900:
> Hello,
>
> I have two quick questions..
>
> 1> I'm running noflushd to spin down the harddrive, which works, but
> this cron job is making it spin back up every 10 minutes or so:
>
> Mar 28 10:38:01 desiree /USR/SBIN/CRON[441]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x
> /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi)
>
> Do I need this cron job, at all? exim is only used for 'sending' mail,
> I use fetchmail to get the mail. Also, I have 3 different connects that
> this laptop sees, a dsl connect (thru firewall/ethernet), a dialup
> connect, and soon a wireless connect, is there another way I can run the
> exim -q (not in cron)?
Yeah, you need this. This checks the queue to see if any mail needs
to be sent. What I did was change the frequency with which this
process occurs. Go into /etc/cron.d and edit "exim". I have it
executing every hour which works good for me.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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