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List:       caldera-users
Subject:    Re: sendmail starts diald ...
From:       Andrew Dyer <adyer () Venus ! mcs ! net>
Date:       1998-05-31 15:44:06
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On Sun, 31 May 1998, Paul S. Russell wrote:

> I've now discovered sendmail is not the culprit. It seemed like more 
> than a coincidence that sendmail was starting every 15mins and diald 
> starts every 15mins - but, I killed the sendmail process and diald is 
> still waking up every 15mins.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas why it would do this?
> 

You can use the dcntl program that comes with diald to list which ports
on your machine are requesting service, and to what destination they
are requesting it from.  I would bet it's some program trying to
resolve a DNS name.  If so you might want to look into setting up a
caching only DNS server for your local site.

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