I did what I probably should have done in the first place, and found the problem. Idis-abled all the scripts in /etc/cron.hourly and then enabled hem one by one.I discoverd that a script called sysstat was the problem. It runs a program called sadc "System activity data collector" and according to the man page, the parameters in the script cause it to run 6 times at 10 minute intervals (BINGO - a total of 50 minutes between the first and last run).
Now, all I have to do is learn a bit about sadc and decide if I want it to run that way (or at all). BTW, I'm guessing that what looked like a postfix problem is normal behaviour since postfix is probably waiting for the programs spawned by cron to finish. -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail (KDE 3.4.2) on LINUX Mandriva 2006 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
