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Re: ip-up for each user?



Try this in your script:

su -c fetchmail username

This will run fetchmail using the .fetchmailrc in /home/username.  You
could do this multiple times for different users.

Bob

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 08:58:22AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > It sounds as if you should use diald to bring the link up automatically
> > whenever a program attempts to connect to an external site.  My own
> > arrangement is for fetchmail to run whenever the link comes up, and for
> > cron to do a single ping from time to time to ensure that the link does
> > come up and collect mail, even if no-one is using it otherwise.
> 
> What I'm looking for is your "arrangement" which allows for fetchmail to
> run when PPP is started. I'm guessing you just played with the systemwide
> ip-up script?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robbie
> 
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