From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 16: 2:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dominus.ma.ultranet.com (d168.dial-1.cmb.ma.ultra.net [209.6.64.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B6314E67 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:01:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moncrg@bt340707.res.ray.com) Received: from bt340707.res.ray.com (dominus.ma.ultranet.com [127.0.0.1]) by dominus.ma.ultranet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01792; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 19:01:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from moncrg@bt340707.res.ray.com) Message-ID: <377D44BF.F7C2096@bt340707.res.ray.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 19:01:20 -0400 From: Greg Moncreaff Reply-To: moncrg@ma.ultranet.com Organization: Raytheon Systems Company - Comm/Cmnd/Cntrl & Integration X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: Don Read Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2, /etc/daily and ppp -auto References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can change "netstat -ir" to "netstat -nir" for one cause, maybe this could be wrapped in a check if "/var/run/tunN.pid" exists [from man ppp(8)] or even better a check to see if ppp was connected if such a feature exists... is there anything I can put in /etc/host.conf or /etc/hosts so that It doesn't have to actually connect to the net for this? if my hostname is in /etc/hosts and /etc/host.conf says use hosts before bind what else can I do to tell sendmail that it doesn't need to connect to the internet?  Don Read wrote: > > On 01-Jul-99 Greg Moncreaff wrote: > > was noticing that there is a dial attempt in ppp.log at 2 am everyday, > > which I guess corresponds to /etc/daily and crontab > > > > was wondering what in /etc/daily would trigger a dial attempt if > > I leave ppp in auto mode? > > > > sendmail (to send you the daily run message) and the netstat -ir > > Regards, > --- > Don Read dread@calcasieu.com > EDP Manager dread@texas.net > Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX > -- But I'm in good company, sendmail has kicked a great many > butts in the past > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Disclaimer: "this is my personal opinion and not that of my employer" R:RSC:C3I:SEL:E3/USA:MA:01752-0388/+1.508.490.2048:fax 2086/42N,71W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message