on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:51:41AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> spake thus: > > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only > > > had this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. > > > Earlier, the exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by > > > a set of scripts in diald's ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories, but > > > not so now. Why is that? I could of course move the thing myself, > > > but I want to do this the debian way. I have tried > > > dpkg-reconfigure exim, but that didn't work... > > > > Two tacks that I could suggest. > > > > One is to run exim only when your PPP connection is up. > > That was the plan. > > > Unfortunately, this has the side effect of disabling local deliver. > > There is no side effect; this is a standalone machine.
Standalone systems still use mail for local delivery, e.g.: cron and at jobs are mailed to user on completion. Mail is a useful thing. > > You can specify commands to run on up and down actions in ppp-up.d > > and ppp-down.d. > > Here is what I did. ppp replaces resolv.conf and names the original > one to resolv.conf.ppp.bak. I exploited this fact and added "-a -f > /etc/resolv.conf.ppp.bak" to the end of the condition between [ ... ] > in /etc/cron.d/exim. Feel free to let loose the applause :P Cool, if it works. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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