Chase
The first entry is just doing a mail queue run to clear any queued e-mails.
The remaining lines clean up exim's hints files.
I'm presuming somewhere else you are starting up exim as a daemon to
listen on port 25 for incoming e-mail. Try /etc/init.d or /etc/rc2.d
(depending on your O/S). You may want to look for 'sendmail' as
sometimes the 'sendmail' executable is simply symbolically linked to exim.
Cheers.
Chase James wrote:
> I have a server running many processes. ps -A lists them repeatedly in the
> following order: exim3, cron, sh. cron.d seems to have the only relevent
> entry (exim) that contains:
>
> /etc/cron.d/exim:
>
> 08,23,38,53 8 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -a -f
> /etc/exim/exim.conf]; then /usr/lib/exim/exim3 -q; fi
>
> # Tidy databases
> 13 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb
> /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi
> 17 6 * * * mail if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb
> /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp >/dev/null; fi
>
> I plan on upgrading, but is this exim or something else?
>
> Thanks,
> Chase
>
>
>
begin:vcard
fn:Frank Bernhardt
n:Bernhardt;Frank
org:b.c.s.i.
adr:;;14 Halton Court;Markham;ON;L3P 6R3;Canada
email;internet:frank@???
title:President
tel;work:905-471-1691
tel;fax:905-471-3016
tel;pager:416-719-7542
tel;cell:416-540-7694
version:2.1
end:vcard
