At 08:46 AM 12/12/98 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
>"Arun K. Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Does diald automatically dial out when it is started at boot time via the
>> init.d scripts? I have NFS and NAMED also started at boot. At first I
>> thought either NFS or NAMED was causing DIALD to dial out at boot up.
>> However, after disabling NFS and NAMED (but DIALD enabled) the Linux
>> machine still dials out at boot up.
>
>Are you running sendmail? I believe that this is the program which
>causes my system to dial on boot.
Yes, I am running sendmail. Thanks (Janet and Graham) for pointing me to
it. I have config'd sendmail to relay thru my ISP's SMTP host and I
believe it is trying to resolve SMTP host DNS name to an address when
sendmail is started at bootup which in turn caused diald to dial out.
-- Arun Khan
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