Jon, 2003-Mar-28 10:49 -0900: > Hello, > > I have two quick questions.. > > 1> I'm running noflushd to spin down the harddrive, which works, but > this cron job is making it spin back up every 10 minutes or so: > > Mar 28 10:38:01 desiree /USR/SBIN/CRON[441]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x > /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) > > Do I need this cron job, at all? exim is only used for 'sending' mail, > I use fetchmail to get the mail. Also, I have 3 different connects that > this laptop sees, a dsl connect (thru firewall/ethernet), a dialup > connect, and soon a wireless connect, is there another way I can run the > exim -q (not in cron)?
Yeah, you need this. This checks the queue to see if any mail needs to be sent. What I did was change the frequency with which this process occurs. Go into /etc/cron.d and edit "exim". I have it executing every hour which works good for me. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
