* Bob Stanfield
I used to collect my mail several times a day from a dial-up-line via a cron job. That option under cron has disappeared.
Why?
I do not recall ever there being such an option, expecially a cron option.
If the reasons are not important to me, how do I restore the feature?
I used to get my mail from dialup via a bash script I wrote and called with cron: dial-out ---------------- #!/bin/bash /home/pat/bin/ppp-on sleep 15 until host iquest.net; do # check for connect & sleep 3 # wait until confirm done fetchmail exit ---------------- ppp-on ---------------- #!/bin/sh # # Script to initiate a ppp connection. This is the first part of the # pair of scripts. This is not a secure pair of scripts as the codes # are visible with the 'ps' command. However, it is simple. # # These are the parameters. Change as needed. TELEPHONE=*67,722-3300 # The telephone number for the connection ACCOUNT=XXXX # The account name for logon (as in 'George Burns') PASSWORD=XXXX # The password for this account (and 'Gracie Allen') LOCAL_IP=0.0.0.0 # Local IP address if known. Dynamic = 0.0.0.0 REMOTE_IP=xxx.xx.x.xxx # Remote IP address if desired. Normally 0.0.0.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 # The proper netmask if needed # # Export them so that they will be available at 'ppp-on-dialer' time. export TELEPHONE ACCOUNT PASSWORD # # This is the location of the script which dials the phone and logs # in. Please use the absolute file name as the $PATH variable is not # used on the connect option. (To do so on a 'root' account would be # a security hole so don't ask.) # #DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer DIALER_SCRIPT=/home/pat/bin/ppp-on-dialer # # Initiate the connection # # I put most of the common options on this command. Please, don't # forget the 'lock' option or some programs such as mgetty will not # work. The asyncmap and escape will permit the PPP link to work with # a telnet or rlogin connection. You are welcome to make any changes # as desired. Don't use the 'defaultroute' option if you currently # have a default route to an ethernet gateway. # # exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug lock modem crtscts /dev/ttyS0 115200 \ asyncmap 20A0000 escape FF kdebug 0 $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP \ noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT exec /home/pat/bin/pppd debug lock modem crtscts /dev/ttyS0 115200 \ asyncmap 20A0000 escape FF kdebug 0 $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP \ noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT ---------------- crontab entry: ---------------- MAILTO=pat 30 0 * * * /home/pat/bin/dial-out ---------------- You have provided little information about your system/situation, so I am guessing that you are talking about ppp connection over phone lines. The other scripts are/should be available on your system. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos