Yes you can do what you have described. User ppp has a mode that
will not dial out until network services are needed by user. Give
your Mom a script to run which will start fetchmail, user ppp will
automatically start and call your ISP and connect, fetchmail will
complete. Then have commands in
On 15 Jul 2003 at 11:36, fbsd_user wrote:
My mom has been using FreeBSD via DSL for some time. I'm about to
move her to dial up. I'm going to use userland ppp and postfix.
My initial untested idea is to create a script for her which will:
- ppp --dial HerISP,
- wait for the
