On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:31:28PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I run a small home LAN. Two Debian Woodies, and two Macintoshes. One > of the Woodies acts as a community link to the Internet via ppp, and > diald. Both Woodies are default installations, which have exim > installed, and configured with option 2. > > My problem is that every 15 minutes, the modem becomes active, the ppp > connection is established and held up for 30 to 60 s and then dropped. > I have traced this to exim, by the simple expedient of deinstalling > various packages until the dialing stopped. I don't want dialing every > 15 minutes. Why is it happening? I have not queued any outing email. > Anyway, exim is configured to dial out immediately when an email is > sent from a MUA. So there can't be a queue of messages waiting to go > out. And, no one on the outside knows what my internal IP addresses > are, so no one can be sending me mail. So what is going on? > I think the standard installation sets up cron job to run evey 15 minutes. Check /etc/cron.d -- Jerome
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