* 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. (S
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 19:55]:
> * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > Give it a later number in /etc/rc?.d (probably /etc/rc2.d) than the
> > sendmail init script. They're started in sequence by /etc/init.d/rc.
>
> Hey Colin.
>
> Yeah, that was my first thought. I
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Give it a later number in /etc/rc?.d (probably /etc/rc2.d) than the
> sendmail init script. They're started in sequence by /etc/init.d/rc.
Hey Colin.
Yeah, that was my first thought. It was already S99fetchmail in the
rc2.d and rc3.d directories. The
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:36:48AM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote:
> Yup; I just hijacked another thread, but my question is related. If I
> want to have system-wide fetchmail started with the usual script in:
> /etc/init.d/
> but have it wait to make sure that sendmail is actually running before
* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "sleep" is what your looking for. "sleep 10s" to wait 10 seconds.
>
> Take a look at the fetchmail man page. Fetchmail has several exit codes so
> you can write your script to say, 'wait 15m when your isp doesn't respond
> before trying again' and other fun
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