[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Muller) writes:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:18:41AM -0000, Pollywog was heard to state: > > > > On 03-Sep-99 Damon Muller wrote: > > > I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm > > > online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as > > > me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when > > > I log off. > > > > I put 'killall fetchmail' in my /etc/diald/ip-down and have done this with > > PPP's ip-down also and it has worked for me. > > Actually, I've recently worked out that another of my files in ip-down.d > doesn't run either. It's just a very small script to play a sound file > to let me know if the modem has disconnected when I don't want it to. It > looks like this: > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/bplay /dos/c/windows/media/bleep.wav > > Pretty simple, and works find when I run it manually, but it doesn't > seem to run when the PPP connection goes down. Perhaps the script "/etc/ppp/ip-down" is missing one or more of the following important lines. PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-down.d -- *********************** Running Debian Linux *********************** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * ************* pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? *************/ --
