On 21-Feb-99 Dave Swegen wrote: > In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when > connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct > (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually > pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I > can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me. > This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (owned by root): > > ---------- > poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3 > user <user> there has password <password> > is dave here > postconnect /usr/bin/runq > ---------- > > And the relevant lines from the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local script look like > this: > > ----------- >#!/bin/sh > fetchmail # <-Just to make sure the mail is fetched immediatly on > fetchmail -d 180 # later connects. > ----------- I did the same thing but I am not certain I put that in ip-up.d since all other attempts in ip-up.d failed. I will try againby moving the script from ip-up to ip-up.d
BTW I did use the correct path thanks -- Andrew
