On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> My /etc/ppp/ip-up does not appear to be working. Am I correct in assuming
> that in Debian, ip-up won't work unless it is placed in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ?
> I want to start fetchmail when I go online and I believe that is where my
> script needs to be placed.
What I did to get fetchmail to run when I connected (I'm also using SLRN
so I've got one for it as well, same theory applies).
I put a script into the ip-up.d directory called fetchmail (giving it read
and execute access for all users) which contained a command line to run
fetchmail (I set it up as a deamon). Here's the script I use :-
#!/bin/sh
#
# Fetchmail Start Up Script
#
su -l -c "fetchmail -d 300" khan
#
# End of Script
#
That's basically all I had to do to get it running properly, now all I've
got to do to connect is run 'pon' as root (I suppose I could run 'pon' as
a user, but I would have to go in and change a lot of permissions, so I
run it as root, it's just as easy).
Catch ya l8r,
Peter Ludwig
