[3727] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Unattended Mail & News runs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tdukes@netside.com)
Sun Nov 10 12:44:29 1996
From: tdukes@netside.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961110115500.4375A-100000@tigger>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 12:33:36 -0500 (EST)
To: tdiehl@pil.net
Cc: Tom Diehl <tdiehl@pil.net>, redhat-list@redhat.com
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On 10-Nov-96 Tom Diehl wrote:
>I am doing this with ppp, diald, popclient, suck, and inn. It for the most
>part works well. Diald takes care of taking the link up and down very well.
>I used to bring the link up and down with dip (when I was using slip) and
>some shell stuff but diald does this MUCH better. The only thing I have
>problems with is if the connection cannot be established it will only try
>2 or 3 times then it dies because (I think) the program calling the ip
>connection times out. I am working on a shell script that will queue up
>an at job to retry the job (mail, suck etc) in 10 minutes. I have it working
>pretty well for suck, but I have not yet implemented it yet for mail.
>If you need more info let me know. As far as installing this stuff goes
>( diald, suck) it is mostly a stock config. The only thing custom is the
>shell scripts I have written for suck to queue the at job (and of course
>the site specfic stuff such as login chat scripts etc.).
I don't know too much about diald, although I have thought about looking
in to it. From what I understand, isn't it a 'demand' dialing application?
I'm not a programmer but I can usually look at a script and figure what
it does. I'd definitely be interested in ANY info you can give me.
Thanks>tdiehl@pil.net
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