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RE: Unattended Mail & News runs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tdukes@netside.com)
Sun Nov 10 15:22:36 1996

From: tdukes@netside.com
In-Reply-To: <199611101905.UAA13494@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:15:29 -0500 (EST)
To: sjmudd@bitmailer.net
Cc: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>, redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On 11-Nov-96 Simon J Mudd wrote:

>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.

P L E A S E!!! I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!>
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