Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d
Hello,
Christian Dysthe:
> #! /bin/sh
> fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc
>
> I also made a more "complete" script using:
>
> #1 /bin/sh
That should be #! and there shouldn't be a space after it.
> if [ -x /usr/bin/fetchmail ]
> then /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc
> fi
> exit 0
Actually, there's not much point doing this. The reason everything else has
it is because when you uninstall a package (rather than purge), dpkg will
leave the ip-up.d script behind and it needs to handle that. I can't quote
chapter and verse, but it's in the policy.
> Another strange thing is that it works and collects mail if I add the
> line: "fetchmail -f /home/cdysthe/.fetchmailrc" to the xisp script in
> /etc/ip-up.d
What's the name of your script? You're only allowed to use letters,
numbers, dashes and underscores in filenames in the ip-up.d directory (same
goes for cron.daily and so on).
If it works when you add the same line to another ip-up.d script, then the
command itself is OK and I'd suspect something about the script or the way
it's invoked... like its name, owner, permissions, bad #! line or similar.
Jiri
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