On Monday 07 May 2001 20:53, Kieren Diment wrote: > My computer connects to the internet with the following dialup script > at the moment: > > pon > sleep 45s > fetchmail > > I would like to get rid of the line sleep 45s and replace it with a > command that starts up the fetchmail process once pon has successfully > negotiated a connection to the internet (my understanding is that this > is when the DNS is registered. What would I put in line two to do > this?
When pppd successfully establishes a connection, it runs /etc/ppp/ip-up. ip-up calls run-parts on everything in /etc/ppp/up-up.d. I just put this little script in there. It starts fetchmail as a daemon and retrieves my mail every 5 minutes. #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300 -L /var/log/fetchmail Then in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d, this one kills fetchmail when the ppp connection goes down. #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/fetchmail -quit Seems to work pretty well. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
