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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:49:58 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Ertan Kucukoglu <ertank@ozlerplastik.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: crontab entries
Message-ID:  <20000305114958.D62310@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <38C2565E.69DFB6F5@ozlerplastik.com>; from ertank@ozlerplastik.com on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:43:10PM %2B0200
References:  <200002291211.HAA02326@server.baldwin.cx> <38C2565E.69DFB6F5@ozlerplastik.com>

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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:43:10PM +0200, Ertan Kucukoglu wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > Alright, your crontab looks fine.  However, my question is: how do you know
> > that periodic is running your scripts on Sunday?  You said that your modem
> > dials out at 1:59 on Sunday, well, that is probably due to one of the
> > weekly scripts in /etc/periodic/weekly/ needing net access for some reason,
> > or perhaps a one of the daily scripts in /etc/periodic/daily/ needing
> > net access.
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> After a week I'm here again. I checked my crontab I put some 'ps ax'
> jobs. And see that something that I'm not sure runs my 'ppp -ddial
> -alias isp' command in a way in the periodic *daily* scripts.
> 
> I put one cron job before periodic daily script and one after that. I
> see that I'm connected after that periodic daily scripts run. I also
> checked if some weekly scripts connects me but I see that their running
> time is different, 3:30.
> 
> Now, I'll check to find out which script is running my ppp, or making it
> to run.

My guess,

  440.status-mailq

The mailq(1) is going to do DNS lookups.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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