Thanks everyone for help on this. I am gonna try the ssh and touching a file with the workstation running a cron job to detect the file and start fetchmail. Cheers Rich

-----Original Message----- From: Dave Smith [SMTP:Dave.Smith@st.com] Sent: 21 August 2001 19:58 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] starting fetchmail when dialup connection made

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:18:24PM +0100, ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

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Another (which is the sort of thing I tend to do) is to NFS-mount workstation's /tmp on Smoothwall. Get kppd to "touch workstation:/tmp/ppp_running", and set up a cron job on workstation to watch /tmp every minute (use

The kernel supplied with Smoothwall does not include NFS support, for (reasonably) obvious security reasons.

I think that the approach of using SSH to either run the command directly, or touch a file which is picked up by a cron checking script is probably the best solution.

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