RE: [TCLUG:2336] fetchmail on connect

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

why not just run fetchmail in background all the time, it will just timeout
when you arn't online. :)

On 24-Nov-98 Ben Luey wrote:
> I want to have fetchmail start running as a dameon when I connect to the
> internet (dialup ppp) and then quit when I disconnect. I have the line
> fetchmail -f ~/.fetchmailrc -d 300  in /etc/ppp/ip-up and fetchamil -q in
> ip-down, but fetchmail doesn't load. I think this is because the script is
> run SUID. Is there a way to have fetchmail run fetchmail as all users with
> a ~/.fetchmailrc file? Then I could just call /etc/fetchmailrc as root and
> it would get mail for everyone.
> 
> 
> Ben Luey
> lueyb@carleton.edu
> ICQ: 19144397
> 
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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