On 3 Sep 1999, W. Paul Mills 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.
> >
> > My script in ip-up.d looks like this:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /bin/su -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300 --syslog -F -K -a --smtpaddress \
> > rei' damon
> >
> > Which works fine, and grabs all my mail, using my ~/.fetchmailrc
> >
> > My script in ip-down.d looks like this:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > su -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --quit' damon
>
> /bin/su -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --quit' damon
> ; Because the path is NOT set.
>
> > This one doesn't seem to work at all. After I log off, the fetchmail
> > process is still working, and I see fetchmail messages in my xconsole.
> >
> > This isn't a huge problem, but it *should* work, I would have thought.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions (yes, the script is executable, and it works
> > if I call it manually from root...)
>
> Works because it is in your path when you run manually!
You may also want to have a look at the file
/usr/doc/fetchmail/contrib/ip-up, which discusses some intricacies related
to running fetchmail from ip-{up,down} scripts called by pppd.
Francois
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