[3735] in RedHat Linux List
Unattended Mail & News runs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon J Mudd)
Sun Nov 10 14:11:51 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 20:05:04 +0100
From: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961110110039.tdukes@netside.com>
Reply-To: sjmudd@bitmailer.net
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
In article <XFMail.961110110039.tdukes@netside.com>, you wrote:
> I've been trying to write a script(s) to be run from cron that will
> pick up my mail and news unattended. I want the script(s) to first,
> check to see if I'm already connected, exit if true, and continue
> if not. So far, I can do this, but cannot get it to disconnect when
> finished. I'm using the ppp-on, redialer and ppp-off scripts that
> come with ppp2.2.0f. I am letting ip-up get the mail with popclient
> and suck for the news.
>
> Is anyone doing something like this or can someone point me in the
> right direction for such a script(s).
I use a custom script to do this, which works well with a cron job running
at 3am in the morning, it dials, connects, picks up the news, and logs the
ip-up, and ip-down times, so if I want i can calculate the time the scripts
are running. If it doesn't connect correctly then it doesn't retry. At the
same time as picking up any news it also retrieves and sends any pending e-mail
which is also useful, as the line is not running flat out.
I can send the necessary scripts if required.
--
regards,
Simon J Mudd, Madrid, SPAIN
e-mail: sjmudd@bitmailer.net
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