Re: [newbie] Thank you to all

[Fajar Priyanto]

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 04:31 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote:
 Greetings fellow Mandrake users.

 I'm writing this email to thank anyone who has ever helped solve
 another's problems on this list. Especially those members whose replys
 show that they are anything but a newbie. Surely their involvement in
 this list must be purely service to the Linux community, rather than for
 personal gain.

 I have been using Mandrake since 9.0 (I'm now on 10.1)and a good 95% of
 what I know about Linux has been learned from just watching this list,
 or asking the occasional question. I am using mandrake now at work and
 at home and it almost completely replaces Winblows. I very rarely have a
 problem I cannot solve now (probably testament to Mandrakes stability
 rather than my skill though).

 I can say without a doubt that had it not been for the newbie list I
 would still be using M$ Winblows today.

 THANKS GUYS AND GIRLS, GIVE YOURSELVES A PAT ON THE BACK.

 I look forward to the day I feel confident enough to help someone else out.

I have the exact path as you do Aidan! :)
Most of the time I was just lurking around in the list, and dive in 
occasionally when I think I can answer the question.

This is one of the topic that I think I'd like to present in the Open Source 
Workshop/Conference that I'm going to attend in Bangalore-India, in January.

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Re: [newbie] Thank you to all

[Q.H. Wang]

 I have the exact path as you do Aidan! :)
 Most of the time I was just lurking around in the list, and dive in
 occasionally when I think I can answer the question.


Me too, boys! And plus googling in case I need some extra infomation.

Q.H. Wang


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Re: [newbie] Thank you to all that replied - that little script done the trick very groovy.....!

[Adolfo Bello]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 19:46, Paul Downey wrote:
 Well I tried the little script, and with a few tweeks, I managed to get it
 to do what I have been wanting all along...?
 many many thanks to all that replied to my emails to the newbie lists.
 another happy Linux user  (newbie.)
 
 I am slowly weening my self off using Microsoft's soft ( hope that comment's
 not too taboo).
 
 Cheers.
 
 Paul.
 
 
 Could a small script like this help?
 
 -
 #!/bin/sh
 
 # To activate the connection
 ping -c 4 pop.myisp.com  /dev/null
 
 # Wait 30 seconds
 sleep 30s
 
 # fetch you mails
 /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F
 -
 
 Try pinging pop.myisp.com to find out if the dial on demand connection
 is activated.
 
 If so, use the script in a cron job instead of calling fetchmail.
 
 HTH
 
 Adolfo
 
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: MDK Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:39 PM
 Subject: Re: [newbie] Many thank's for your reply.
 
 
  On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:05, Derek Jennings wrote:
   On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 7:37 pm, Paul Downey wrote:
Hi Derek,
   
Thanks ever so much for your speedy reply, Your suggestions are great,
If I understand you correctly, your suggestion / solution implies that
 the
dial-up /  ppp connection is running on the same machine that
 fetchmail is.
Therefore the dial up( if-up.local ) script calls fetchmail when it
 has
brought the modem link up...!
   
I am not sure if I made my self clear, my apoligies...
My dial-up connection is on another box ( a smoothwall / firewall )
 and it
is this box that has a modem
attached to act as my gateway device.  ( dial on demand. )
   
I run fetchmail on my mandrake 9.0 work station, and it times out with
 a
dns error
I think this is due to the amout of time that the smoothwall box takes
 to
dial up my isp?
   
I have looked into my Reply To setting in my LookOut Express
Once again many thanks.
   
Paul
   
   
  
   Ok Well in that case  you will not like my second suggestion either.
 Running
   fetchmail  as a daemon would cause  your firewall to redial the modem
 every 3
   minutes :-(
  
   I assume the firewall saves the packets it has received while it is
 waiting
   for the modem to dial, so does the 3rd solution help?  (Using an
 explicit IP
   address in fetchmail configuration)
  
   The other solution that comes to mind is to run fetchmail on your
 firewall and
   save your mail on there. You could  run your cron job on the firewall
 itself.
  
   derek
 
  Could a small script like this help?
 
  -
  #!/bin/sh
 
  # To activate the connection
  ping -c 4 pop.myisp.com  /dev/null
 
  # Wait 30 seconds
  sleep 30s
 
  # fetch you mails
  /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -t 200 -D mydomain.co.uk -F
  -
 
  Try pinging pop.myisp.com to find out if the dial on demand connection
  is activated.
 
  If so, use the script in a cron job instead of calling fetchmail.
 
  HTH
 
  Adolfo
 

Glad to know you got your problem solved.

See you around,

Adolfo


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