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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:19:57 -0500
From:      "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net>
To:        "John Utz" <spaz@u.washington.edu>, <StevenR362@aol.com>
Cc:        <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups.
Message-ID:  <199612072020.UAA141002@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net>

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OK, it's sendmail.  What part of sendmail?  If it's trying to run the
queues, change the interval to something better. 

If it's doing DNS lookups (as it is wont to do) then set an appropriate
dfilter entry in /ppp.conf to prevent DNS from triggering a dial out).

As to your point of having sendmail enabled by default - this has been
debated unto death before.  I abstain from voting this time around.

...sjs...

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From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
To: StevenR362@aol.com
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ppp+alias -auto &spurious dialups.
Date: Friday, December 06, 1996 1:47 AM

Yuparoo! It's sendmail!

it is turned on by default in /etc/sysconfig. go kill it! This bugged the
snot out of my wife for a year until i finally clued in. She'd pick up the
phone to call somebody and would be confronted with the happy modem song!


do we really need it to be on by default? Anybody likely to use it ( ie
ISP's ) would be smart enuf to turn it on and it is just a waste having it
run if it is not configured, right?


On Thu, 5 Dec 1996 StevenR362@aol.com wrote:

> 
> I compiled Charles Mott's aliasing ppp and it seems to be working just
dandy.
> A nice  bit of code.  Now I've decided to finally setup ppp for demand
> dialing.
> This also seems to be working fine with one minor exception.  About every
> fifteen minutes the system dials up my ISP.  The system is otherwise
> quiescent
> with no one logged on and nothing going on my Winblows 95 box either.
> I have named and routed disabled on my FreeBSD box.  Now what do I have
to
> filter or disable to get it to stop dialing out four times an hour.  From
> recent
> postings to hackers,  I suspect sendmail is the culprit.  Does anyone
else
> have
> ppp -auto working?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 

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 John Utz	spaz@u.washington.edu
	idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life




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