Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:54:23 +0200 From: Robert Golovniov <g-r-v@ukr.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Handling mail on a dialup connection Message-ID: <200403081801.i28I1pbS070211@gw.core>
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Hello,
I would like to create an hourly cron to have the machine bring up
the dialup connection, check for the new mail (with fetchmail), send
any outgoing messages (with postfix) and then bring the connection
down.
To make things more complicated, I would like to use this dialup
session to automatically update my virus databases for clamav,
f-prot, and Panda AV.
I think I could figure out how to set each of these processes in
cron, but I am not sure how to tell the script that it should wait
for one process to finish before it starts performing the second
task. What is the best place to look for more information on that?
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