forwarded message: > From smartin Tue Oct 15 14:38:30 1996 > Message-Id: <m0vDDRm-0005CzC@> > From: smartin (Simon Martin) > Subject: popclient and diald > To: smartin (Simon Martin) > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:38:30 -0300 (CDT) > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Length: 1450 > > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: by huelen.reuna.cl (Smail3.1.25.1 / REUNA) > id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 15 Oct 96 01:55 SAT > Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by love.dial.xs4all.nl (8.6.12/8.6.12) id > AAA01506; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:08:03 +0200 > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:08:03 +0200 > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: linux.debian.user > Subject: Re: popclient and diald > From: Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Simon Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: aed415b2c7788b08a3105dfec6a4130c > > In response to mail from Vincent Zweije > > <snip> > > Simon now says: > > || I have a work around for now. Instead of using popclient in daemon mode I > || have generated a script that forces diald to raise the link, waits for ppp > || to be activated (/var/run/ppp0.pid is created) and then runs popclient. > This > || is called periodically by cron > > To me this sounds as if Simon has (a) a dynamically assigned IP address > on dial-up, and (b) The POP server in /etc/hosts. > <snip> > Hope this helps. Vincent. > Vincent:
It did help. I did this and it now works correctly. Thank you very much. -- Simon Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Old software engineers never die, they just fail to boot" All Trademarks used in this document are recognized as Registered Trademarks of their respective owners -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
