Re: Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions
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On Tuesday 11 December 2001 10:49 am, 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
The debian exim package installs this command in /etc/cron.d/exim which if
you were to RTFM you would see flushes exim's queue
As for why it causes an outgoing connection - you have to get into
/etc/exim/exim.conf - but fear not - its very easy once you get started.
- --
Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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