Re: [leafnode-list] texpire causes network activity?

[George Lane <glane4@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Brown wrote:
>  
> It may be caused not by texpire but by something that happens after
> texpire has run - for example, if the output from texpire is mailed
> instead of /dev/nulled then it is likely that the MTA will be doing
> reverse DNS lookups at some point (particularly if it is sendmail).
> How exactly is texpire invoked from cron?
> 

Yep, that was it.  The output of texpire is indeed mailed by sendmail.
On my system it seems sending local mail messages generates the lookup
that triggers diald. I was able to reproduce the problem.  Thanks for
the help.

Off to tweak my sendmail settings...


George Lane
Atlanta

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