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[moseley@xxxxxxxx (Bill Moseley)]

At 06:16 PM 04/28/00 -0700, S.Toms wrote:

>(all on one line)
>0-59/5 * * * * mail  test "`ps acx | grep pppd`" != "" &&
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300

>if it finds that pppd daemon is running, it will launch fetchmail which
>will begin checking for messages. A seperate line like the following
>
>(all on one line)
>0-59/5 * * * * mail  test "`ps acx | grep pppd`" = "" &&
/usr/bin/fetchmail -q
>
>which will check to see if pppd is down and kill fetchmail thus preventing
>problems.

I think this could all be simplified by using fetchmail's -M switch.  Start
fetchmail at boot (or first time ip-up.local is executed, and leave it
running).  Fetchmail will fetch mail while on-line, and it will wait while
off-line.

Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@xxxxxxxx


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