Try this in your script: su -c fetchmail username
This will run fetchmail using the .fetchmailrc in /home/username. You could do this multiple times for different users. Bob On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, 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? > > Thanks, > Robbie > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
