Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-03 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Mike, Originally this was my question. No it is not a multi-user box, I just wanted my mail downloaded automatically every time I connect, without manually invoking fetchmail... Now it is solved, the prob was that I did not know that for this I have to put my fetchmailrc to /etc on debian --

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:35:23AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Why not using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail ? > Note that it uses /etc/init.d/fetchmail which, in turn, needs > /etc/fetchmailrc. > > Please read /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian > -- Is this a multi user box? Do you want each

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-02 Thread Viktor Lakics
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:35:23AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > Why not using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail ? > Note that it uses /etc/init.d/fetchmail which, in turn, needs > /etc/fetchmailrc. > Please read /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian This was the missing piece of information, thanks. --

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-01 Thread Shaul Karl
> Dear fellow Debianers, > > I have just come to Debian 3 weeks ago, and still struggle to set up > my previous dialup conf using another linux version. > > Here is what I want: > > Every time I log on to my isp (from anywhere in my box, could be > root, or other users) I want my email download

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-01 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Dave, I renamed the scripts to something else when I moved them from MAndrake. (Not because I knew what you suggested, so thanks for the info) So the problem is somewhere else... I hope there is someone outhere, who still uses the old-fashioned linux style dialup and has the same setup. Thank

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:00:03AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: [...] > And I had a file called ip-up.local in /etc/ppp : [...] > And at the end of connection I had ip-down.local: [...] > I noticed that here under debian there is a dir with autoscripts: > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and