On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> > 1. It has no provision for the possibility of fetchmail still being in
> > action after 5 minutes (for example someone attaches a large file to an
> > e-mail)
> >
> > 2. It has no way of handling a situation where fetchmail has stalled and
> > needs to be restarted.
> >
> > Obviously, my scripting skills aren't that great.
>
> I just thought of an interesting fix for this...
for my scripting skills or the problem with my script? :)
> (note my shell scripting sucks...but you should be able to
> get the general idea from this..also I just cooked this up...pulled
> it right out of my ass)
Hey, at least you had an idea. I'm not even sure what all of it means.
> #!/bin/bash
> # note im not making ppp-mail is just a place holder
> # ...its an example anyway ;)
>
> if [ -f /var/run/ppp-mail ]
> fetchmail
> rm -f /var/run/ppp-mail
> exit 0
> fi
This checks to see if /var/run/ppp-mail exists as an ordinary file, then
runs fetchmail if it is. When fetchmail finishes, it deletes
/var/run/ppp-mail. Right?
Does the exit 0 end the script right then and there or what?
> touch /var/run/ppp-mail
This creates an empty /var/run/ppp-mail file, right?
> $0 & # If you didn't have the test above this would make a mess
What's the $0 & for?
> exit 0
Hmm... another one of these. I think it makes sense to have one at the
end of the script, although mine doesn't and it works.
What I don't understand (because I'm clueless), is what testing for,
removing and creating /var/run/ppp-mail would accomplish.
Below is my script (with the boring connect/disconnect stuff removed).
Any input is welcome. If you can give me a clue as to how your idea would
fit into this mess, that would be great.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Stuff to initiate ppp connection
#
# /home/pppusers/pppd.log is created by ip-up when connection
# is established. This waits for that to happen.
until test -r /home/pppusers/pppd.log
do
sleep 5s
done
fetchmail &
sleep 4m
killall fetchmail
# Stuff to kill ppp connection below
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