Re: Bug#19135: fetchmail: fetchmail tries to fetchmail every time my demand dialed ppp connection goes up
Hi,
>>"Scott" == Scott K Ellis <storm@stormcrow.ml.org> writes:
Scott> On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 srivasta@datasync.com wrote:
>> Package: fetchmail Version: 4.3.8-1
>>
>> When I upgraded fetchmail, suddenly fetchmail is called everytime
>> the PPP connection goes up. Short of removing the conffile, there
>> is no easy way of stopping this. Please look for some indication
>> that I have asked for this behaviour (like reading an external file
>> somewhere).
>>
>> My PPP connection goes up several times an hour (I use demand
>> dialing). Unconditionally running fetchmail is a bug.
Scott> You have realized that you can prevent all of these run-parts
Scott> things from happening simply by commenting out the run-parts
Scott> invocation in /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down, haven't you?
I am not entirely stupid, so yes, I realize that.
Scott> It isn't that hard for people who have special requirements, I
Scott> find it refreshing myself for it to download my mail when I
Scott> connect.
I think that nothing should start sending requests off machine
behind my back on an upgrade. The Defailt should be OFF. If you like
it, turn it on. The behaviour should be to be close to what it was
before.
No progrom should ever send things off machine by itself like
this. Mind you, I am not objecting to the ip-up.d scripts: all I am
asking for is an ip.conf file in /etc/ppp where all these scripts
look for permission.
slrn does it right; I just wanted to standardize on that.
manoj
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