popclient and diald (fwd)
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> From smartin Tue Oct 15 14:38:30 1996
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> From: smartin (Simon Martin)
> Subject: popclient and diald
> To: smartin (Simon Martin)
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:38:30 -0300 (CDT)
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> Subject: Re: popclient and diald
> From: Vincent Zweije <zweije@xs4all.nl>
> References: <[🔎] m0vBrjX-0005IIC@gandalf>
> Cc: Simon Martin <smartin@reuna.cl>, Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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> In response to mail from Vincent Zweije
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> <snip>
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> Simon now says:
>
> || I have a work around for now. Instead of using popclient in daemon mode I
> || have generated a script that forces diald to raise the link, waits for ppp
> || to be activated (/var/run/ppp0.pid is created) and then runs popclient. This
> || is called periodically by cron
>
> To me this sounds as if Simon has (a) a dynamically assigned IP address
> on dial-up, and (b) The POP server in /etc/hosts.
> <snip>
> Hope this helps. Vincent.
>
Vincent:
It did help. I did this and it now works correctly. Thank you very much.
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