From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 11:13:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02637 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:13:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02587 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:13:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10679; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:13:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10265; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:48:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810221348.OAA10265@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eddie Lawhead cc: Robert Huff , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: retrieving email In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:32:07 PDT." <3.0.3.32.19981021123207.006ddaac@silk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:48:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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. The quotes shouldn't be there. ``!bg /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 900'' will work ok. > Eddie Lawhead -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message