Hello everybody. I set up a mail server last week in our office and stumbled accross a few items wher eyou can perhaps help me.
1) exim ------- I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if (exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go online and force a queue run. Afterwards I go offline. The problem I encountered is that exim does it queue run in the backgroud which in generel might be a good idea but it is not in my case since I have to do a while loop after initiating the queue run until there is nothing more in the queue. This might raise problems if my smarthost is down due to some reason and I never can flush the mails. So I'ld like to know wheter there is a way to tell exim to do it's queue run in the foreground and exit when everything is done. 2) isdn ------- I use isdn to connect to the isp. to go online I issue a 'isdnctrl dial ippp0'. I'ld like to know if there's an easy way to find out wheter I'm currently connected or not. With standard ppp this is quite simply since a '/sbin/ifconfig | grep ppp0' would solve all my problems but with isdn the ippp0 device always shows up in ifconfig and there's no way to tell it from ifconfig alone. So I did a 'route | grep ippp0 | grep default | grep -q UG' which works most of the time but fails sometimes. I don't know why. Any ideas? 3) login.defs ------------- I set SU_WHEEL_ONLY to yes in login.defs but somehow I can still su to root as a normal user. Is there something I missed? PS: I use slink with 2.2.12, isdn2linux that came with slink and that's it. TIA -- Weasel http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP encrypted messages prefered. See my site for my PGP key. -------------------------------------------------------------- A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
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