From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 12:32:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (tcnet18-019.austin.texas.net [209.99.96.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEF414EA2 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (localhost.calcasieu.com [127.0.0.1]) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20484; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:33:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <377D44BF.F7C2096@bt340707.res.ray.com> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:33:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: moncrg@ma.ultranet.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2, /etc/daily and ppp -auto Cc: Don Read Cc: Don Read , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Jul-99 Greg Moncreaff wrote: > 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... Haven't tried it, but that is what 'pppctl' lives for. > > 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? > Try using 'sendmail -O DeliveryMode=d' in the crontab. The mail won't get delivered til the next queue run, but probably cleaner than mess^H^H^H^Haltering a working config 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