Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

[Mike McGuire <mjm19@po.cwru.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had
> this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the
> exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by a set of scripts
> in diald's ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories, but not so now. Why is
> that? I could of course move the thing myself, but I want to do this the
> debian way. I have tried dpkg-reconfigure exim, but that didn't work...

I think what you're looking for is the exim cron job that runs every 
15 minutes. I'd look into disabling that, but I don't remember if 
there's some special Debian way to edit cron entries. Here's where it 
is: '/etc/cron.d/exim'. I *think* if you change it, it either won't be 
updated or it'll ask you to when exim inevitably gets updated.

I probably would have looked into it when I was messing with diald a 
while back, but I just gave up instead. Not to discourage you or 
anything, I'm just lazy. :)

HTH,
Mike McGuire