From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 15 7:25:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tantalum.btinternet.com (tantalum.btinternet.com [194.73.73.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835A514F2E for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 07:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from duncanks@altavista.net) Received: from [195.171.233.165] (helo=duncan) by tantalum.btinternet.com with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11G1Dn-0004Pe-00; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:25:15 +0100 Message-ID: <012301bee729$bbed0260$0100a8c0@my.domain> From: "Duncan Spooner" To: , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <37B6C9AA.8DC2F13C@ma.ultranet.com> Subject: Re: Dial out attempt every 30 minutes, why? Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:23:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On a fairly recent 3.2-stable (end of July) > I am noticing a ppp dial attempt about > every 30 minutes, all day long. > > Any idea what might be causing this? Look in your /etc/rc.conf file I bet there is a line for starting up sendmail with something like "sendmail -bq30", remove the "q30" bit, as it tells it to do something every 30 minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message