* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You could just add a "sleep 10s" to the beginning of > /etc/init.d/fetchmail, and tune the 10 to whatever number is just large > enough so that sendmail will have started but just small enough so that > the delay isn't too obnoxious each time you boot. (Sounds like either > way, it would be less obnoxious than having to su and start it manually, > though). > > I suppose you're looking for a 'prettier' way, though. You could do it > with a smaller delay and put it in a loop. This is like "polling for > sendmail". Something like this: > > while ! [ `pidof sendmail` ] ; do > sleep 2s > done > > Still not really all that pretty, but it should work.
Hey Vineet. Thanks for the ideas! I will give them a whirl as soon as I get some breathing space. I'll let you know what happens :) Thanks a bunch, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
