At 09:25 PM 04/28/00 -0700, S.Toms wrote:

Yeah, I caught your reply on the subject where you talked about the -M, honestly, I forgot about that option and agree it is a good idea which would help remove the second crontab that kills fetchmail. But I still think I would use the crontab method so that I wouldn't have to rely on ip-up (depending on distribution). What do you think?

You may be asking the wrong person, as I tend to stumble along most times in Linux. It probably doesn't matter, but I like ip-up.local, as then I know the first time I call fetchmail I'm really on line. I talked with the author of Fetchmail and discussed the issuse of -M. Once Fetchmail stops requesting mail due to PPP inactivity, it will continue to wait until it detects other PPP traffic. This works fine, but I had argued that if you run fetchmail while a copy is already running it should "bump" it into reading again. Then next version should do this. This would mean I wouldn't need to call ping from cron, rather call fetchmail. Same difference really. Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/