-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:57:00PM +0200, Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello, > > What is the best way to configure fetchmail to regularly check for new > mail on a dialup account? I tried doing it with a simple cron job like > "pon && fetchmail && poff" but the last command for some reasons never > worked. I also tried running pppd in "on-demand" mode, but somehow this > did not work either. Is there a "normal" or "professional" way of doing > it? Many thanks! > > -- > -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv. Topolna-West=- Hi Rob, I have a small script that checks the machine in online before it runs fetchmail. So the cron jobs runs constantly but fechmail only runs when on line. #------------------------------------------------------------------- IP=$(/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2>&1 |grep inet|cut -f2 -d:|cut -d' ' -f1) if [ $IP ]; then # online fetchmail fi #------------------------------------------------------------------ -kev - --
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