Re: Executing a Script every hour
Tha sounds like a very logical thing to do, as you can tell I'm a newbie.
Do you mean running the script from ip-up??
Maybe somone can tell me how to tell pppd to connect, i.e. without for
instance running ping?
Thanks,
Chris
> * Christof Hurschler <hurschler@gmx.de> [2003-09-30 15:04]:
> > $pop = Net::POP3->new('pop3host', Timeout => 60);
>
> Perl, eh? Never played around with that language, sorry.
>
> > but I haven't been able to get it to work in swendelete, I always get
> > a "can't connect to mail server" error when I run swendelete.pl and
> > don't have an active connection (I'm usind demand in ppp).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Although I have no experience with the language, you may want to try
> approaching the problem from the other end. If you can't get the
> 'Net::POP3' module to wait until the ppp daemon finishes connecting,
> have the ppp daemon run your script as soon as it finishes connecting.
>
> Then, instead of running your script every hour, have the daemon connect
> every hour, then disconnect after a suitable period.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Regards,
> --
> dave [ please don't CC me ]
>
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