From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 12:31:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28708 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silk.net (music.silk.net [206.12.206.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28702 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eddie@silk.net) Received: from support1 (support1.silk.net [204.244.106.67]) by silk.net (8.8.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA10889; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19981021123207.006ddaac@silk.net> X-Sender: eddie@silk.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:32:07 -0700 To: Robert Huff , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Eddie Lawhead Subject: Re: retrieving email In-Reply-To: <199810211902.PAA09712@shell1.cybercom.net> References: <362E2490.2F359377@mc.HL.siemens.DE> <362E2490.2F359377@mc.HL.siemens.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello!! I have two !bg in my .linkup file and it works great. Be sure to provide the full path. I'm not on my FBSD box right now but you may need to include something like: !bg '/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 900' I think the quotes are nesassary ? If it doesn't work still try creating a shell script that !bg calls to execute the commands. Eddie Lawhead At 03:02 PM 21/10/98 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > >Srinivasan Iyengar writes: > >> I got my ppp to work and am able to send mail using sendmail. But >> the 'fetchmail' command does not seem to get recognized by >> ppp. Is there something I need to do in order to retreive email >> from my account at msn.com, before I use the >> >> !bg ...... fetchmail >> >> in the ppp.linkup file? Is there some daemon that needs to be >> started? > > Welcome to the club. While I run fetchmail from somewhere >else, I've pretty much conlcuded the "!bg" function is broken. I've >tried running a number things using it and get at most an >intermittant 20% success rate. And I'm talking simple stuff here; >don't get me started on the complex scripts with device contention >issues. > > > Robert Huff > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message