"Eric" == Eric G Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes: Eric> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:51:12AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote:
>> Every so often when logged into the console, I get a message >> looking like this: >> >> PAM_unix[28529]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) >> >> Can anyone tell me what this means? Is it a problem, and if so, what >> can I do about it? Eric> There's a cron job for exim that runs every 30 minutes by Eric> default, to try to flush any messages remaining in the queue. Eric> It's a good thing. If your mailserver is running all the time Eric> (in daemon mode), then it is probably unnecessary (but shouldn't Eric> hurt anything). Why does the message pop up on my console, then, instead of going to a log file somewhere? \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Public Key #21A279E5 A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. - S. C. Johnson