Re: Spurious dialing

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:00:18 -0400 dolee mindspring com imparted to us:
> Living in a digital black hole, I have neither DSL nor cablemodem, so
> I am constrained to dialing out for network access.  I have
> dial-on-demand configured, which works properly, except that I get a
> dialout event at boot time, every time.  I'm running tcpdump, but I
> can't decode the output well enough to point me at whatever is
> happening to initiate the network access that causes the dialing to
> occur.  My installation is RH 7.1, fresh out of the box, with the only
> post-installation configuration being that related to dialout and
> Netscape configuration.  I would appreciate any tips on how to ferret
> out the culprit so that I can fully control when a dialout occurs.

Sendmail used to do it to me every time. You might look in that
direction and consider use cron entries  and/or logon scripts to control
it.

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