Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:29:25 +0100 (MET) From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can in have an "ip-up" script with user ppp too? Message-ID: <199701300729.IAA03985@plm.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <199701300535.WAA02620@obie.softweyr.ml.org> References: <199701282035.VAA06654@plm.xs4all.nl> <199701282136.OAA18759@xmission.xmission.com> <199701282321.AAA10373@plm.xs4all.nl> <199701300535.WAA02620@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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>> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:35:13 -0700 (MST), Wes Peters
>> <softweyr@xmission.com> said:
WP> Recenlty I said to Peter, with regards to shell commands in ppp.linkup:
WP> % Yeah, it accepts PPP commands. I think one of these commands is !
WP> % to run an interactive shell. You'd have to check this. What do you
WP> % want to run? (Chances are you're doing it backwards.)
WP> Peter Mutsaers writes:
>> OK, I'll try that. I want to run sendmail -q and fetchmail.
WP> Your doing it backwards. What you really want to do is make
WP> user mode PPP demand dialing work, and then run sendmail and
WP> fetchmail in a cron job. This way, the PPP link will be
WP> automagically brought up each time sendmail and fetchmail get
WP> started.
No, I played with demand dialing and it looks nice, but I don't want
it. Local telephone calls here are quite expensive. I don't want to
risk to call my ISP accidentally, and as soon as I'm finished I want
to hang up immediately. So I really want only manual dialing.
--
Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality
plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have
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