Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:54:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: retrieving email Message-ID: <199810221354.OAA10290@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:02:03 EDT." <199810211902.PAA09712@shell1.cybercom.net>
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> 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.
I use ``!bg'' every time I connect to cat an audio file into a remote
/dev/audio so that I know when the connection is up. It works 100%
of the time - it also plays another sound from ppp.linkdown.
Can you supply any evidence of the failure ?
The only thing that people may not be aware of here is that executing
a command from a configuration file will redirect I/O to /dev/null
whereas executing a command from a ppp prompt will connect stdio to
your command prompt.
> Robert Huff
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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