From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 12:40:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA06763 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06758 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA00678; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:39:42 -0400 Message-Id: <199604091939.PAA00678@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: mystery phone call To: brian@filoli.com (Brian Queen) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:39:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: from Brian Queen at "Apr 8, 96 02:25:40 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Queen wrote... > In the middle of the night last night my machine made a call to > somewhere, and I even heard the hard drive churning. Yes, it will. This is '/etc/daily' being run by cron. > > Is there a log file I can check to see what was going on? mail sent to root gives you the results. > > I was logged out so ppp on demand was not functional, so it was not the > sendmail trying to route mail through my ppp link. ppp is always there. It dials out as soon as something tries to send a packet out. Guessing (because this is what my machine does...) I'd say that you aren't running DNS, but do have your ISP's DNS server(s) defined in /etc/resolv.conf. There are 2 parts of the usual 'daily' shell script which will cause name resolution - 'mailq' and the 'netstat' command (I forget the parameters). Naturally, in order to resolve a hostname, the machine will send a request to your ISP - waking up ppp. 2 solutions - You could remove the offending steps from '/etc/daily' or, do what I do - set the modem to dial silently. That way it didn't wake me up... :-) > > It may have been sendmail trying to do uucp, but my uucp log shows no > activity for the past three days. > > Brian > John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key