Automatic Internet connection.
Jeff Kinz
jkinz at kinz.org
Sat Jul 3 12:49:18 UTC 2004
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:02:52AM +0530, sg at pobox.com wrote:
> Sir,
>
> I am using Redhat Linux 9 and qmail and i am having dial-up internet
> connection and download mail with fetchmail and i want to create a script
> which will excute with a gap of 30 minutes and it will up ppp connection and
> download mail and send all queue messages and then automatically discount
> internet connection.
>
> Now a days i am doing this process manually. but i want to make it automatic.
>
fetchmail -d 1800
puts fetchmail in deamon mode, w/30 min interval
Place it in your .bash_profile, or better, put a fetchmail comman in
cron for each user who needs to poll mail.
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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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