Re: ip-up scripts not running

[Dan Christensen <jdc@jhu.edu>]

Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I've got a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to run fetchmail on connect,
> but it doesn't appear to be run 
...
> The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail file is just:
> 
> /usr/bin/fetchmail --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc

According to the run-parts man page:

       Scripts must follow the #!/bin/interpretername  convention
       in  order  to be executed.  They will not automatically be
       executed by /bin/sh.

Dan

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Dan Christensen
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