Re: ip-up.d

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 24-Sep-99 John Hasler wrote:
>> I am having a problem using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to start fetchmail when I
>> use pon to connect. there is a script in there that wil start fetchmail
>> for me as desired via command line. yet fetchmail still won't start on
>> it's own when I connect to my ISP.
> 
> Post the name of the script, the permissions, and the script itself.
> 
> Here is mine:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           63 May 27 19:27 fetchmail
> 
>#!/bin/sh
> rm  -f /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/*
> fetch-mail
> runq
> 
> Here is the script 'fetch-mail':
> 
>#!/bin/sh
> su postman -c "fetchmail -v"

In my script, I have:

#!/bin/sh
sleep 10s
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 480



--
Andrew



> 
> The user 'postman' exists solely to handle mail and has a home directory
> set up to push mail through mailagent, which forwards it appropriately.
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