On 22-Feb-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: > > 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
Thanks, I fixed my script by adding a "sleep 10s" to the top of the script. Fetchmail works now. -- Andrew
