Re: Strange Message
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:51:12AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
> Every so often when logged into the console, I get a message looking
> like this:
>
> PAM_unix[28529]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0)
>
> Can anyone tell me what this means? Is it a problem, and if so, what
> can I do about it?
There's a cron job for exim that runs every 30 minutes by default, to
try to flush any messages remaining in the queue. It's a good thing.
If your mailserver is running all the time (in daemon mode), then it is
probably unnecessary (but shouldn't hurt anything).
--
#! /bin/sh
# ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \
's=.*inet addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='
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