Re: Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:49, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to learn about it some day.
> I'm getting some puzzling internet connections that appear to be initiated by exim, but I can't see where it's doing it.
> The syslog shows:
>
> >Dec 11 10:23:01 tbird2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[29960]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi)
> >Dec 11 10:23:01 tbird1 ZyXEL Communications Corp.: board 0 line 0 channel 0, call 230, C01 Outgoing Call dev=2 ch=0 08089933001 .
> >Dec 11 10:23:02 tbird1 ZyXEL Communications Corp.: board 0 line 0 channel 0, call 230, C02 OutCall Connected 64000 08089933001
>
> and this happens every 15 minutes.
I see the same behavior: the cron line you're looking for is probably in
the file /etc/cron.d/exim. (At least it is there on my woody system.)
What puzzles me is why it actually causes my demand ppp connection to
connect, even when there's nothing to go out. I haven't looked into it,
because it has the side effect of causing fetchmail to run every 15
minutes. If this exim job didn't do it, I'd have to create another to
do it. (I have fetchmail brought up in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and killed off
in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d.)
Glad to be able to help!
Randy
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