Eli Sand wrote: > Yeah, I noticed that just after posting and seeing Nigels response. Now I
> see why it's so weird - why would cron take almost 8m to send a message that
> was less than 6k in size? It seems like there's an issue with the backup
> script or cron.
It's probably a long running cron job that pipes output to sendmail
during it's lifetime. I've got a few of those on my system, too. 8m
isn't very long for a nightly backup job.