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? This is in /etc/diald/ip-up: =================================================================== #!/bin/sh
# Set the time and date ntpdate -s -t 5 ntp2c.mcc.ac.uk ntp4.strath.ac.uk & # Get mail fetchmail mail.enterprise.net # Run the mail queue runq =================================================================== I presume you could do the same in /etc/ppp/ip-up/<something>. fetchmail won't allow 2 copies of itself to run, so you don't need to worry about that. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ======================================== "My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires." James 1:19,20
