Re: ip-up.d

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>]

* John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

>> 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.
-----------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I suspect John thinks about the following sentence in the manpage of
run-parts, so check that:

   Filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters,
   digits, under­ scores, and hyphens.

You could also try 
  run-parts --report /etc/ppp/ip-up
maybe that gives a clue.

HTH,
  Colin

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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>