On Saturday 01 March 2003 3:05 am, Bob Proulx wrote: > Dave Selby wrote: > > Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it > > is supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. > > > > Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated > > (mailing output) > > Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link > > Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established. > > Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem > > At a guess something in /etc/cron.weekly/* is causing the trouble. > > > My /etc/crontab now looks like ... > > That just calls the scripts in /etc/cron.weekly and others. Check all > of them, specifically weekly, and see what you see. > > > I thought I had cured the problem until it did it again tonight !!! > > do I need to do something with the crontab command ?? > > *Any* output from a crontab command is simply mailed to the owner of > the crontab. In this case it looks like root. > > Why would mail access the network? Will diald start if you simply > send a mail message? From the local user to the local user? > Something does not seem right there. Perhaps it is configured for DNS > to the net and therefore is spawning to look up a hostname? Perhaps > you have a smarthost configured and it is forwarding? Just guesses. > > If that is the problem then you will need to deduce ways around the > problem. It is normal for some crontabs to generate output which > needs to be mailed. You won't want to completely prevent that. > > Bob
mmm .. me thinks me is on the edge of my knolledge here. My dial on demand links to the web if it does not recognise a web or email address. This works AOK To my understanding when /etc/cron.weekly is executed it obviously has something to report, doesnt know the email address where it is supposed to send it so dials the web ? I guess my first step is to check to see if root has mail from cron.weekly, because i set MAILTO=root ... Anybody know where roots mail is kept ? If you could let me know that, I will do more research and get back to you guys. with more info ... Thanks Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
