Re: tlug: sendmail on TurboLinux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Eric S. Standlee wrote:

> Sorry to confuse you Scott.  I meant a bash script that runs all of those
> in sequence checking for appropriate execusion (no errors) and then
> ppp-off to close the connection.  For instance, in the script I am writing
> (nothing special) I cannot get it to wait until pppd is up before going on
> to sendmail; fetchmail; and ppp-off.  I know that if I use ip-up it will
> automatically do that for me, but then I don't get to see the pretty debug
> information from sendmail and fetchmail as they execute because ip-up puts
> its stin/stout to /dev/null (YUCK!).

I've developed a daemon of sorts that will touch a lock file when the ppp0
interface actually becomes available.. you might use that.  I haven't
released it yet, though, but I could give you the source and let you play
with it.

> 
> Also, since fetchmail has such helpful exit codes, I was trying to check
> the codes and then rerun fetchmail if say it couldn't get to my pop mail
> server which happens far too often.
> 

usually a program will return 0 to the shell upon successful completion...

> TIA for any help,
> Eric
> 
> On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Eric S. Standlee wrote:
> >
> > yeah, and you just named them: 'ppp-on', 'sendmail', 'fetchmail',
> > 'ppp-off' :)
> > 
> 
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