From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 3: 7:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE21515670 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 03:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA20462; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:04:47 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id MAA20680; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:02:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA05611; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:56:09 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id MAA23556; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:00:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3753B08A.CDBCFAED@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:06:02 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Silver Cc: questions Subject: Re: Problem with ppp.linkup References: <3D5EC7D2992BD211A95600A0C9CE047F0274E3CE@isjhbex01.is.co.za> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------5626E3AD363AA6D67638608D" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5626E3AD363AA6D67638608D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, 1st : any answer or question must be CC'ed to -questions 2nd : if you have a reasonably recent version of FreeBSD, you should have a look at /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.linkup.sample, where there are some examples of commands to run at linkup. TfH Marc Silver wrote: > > Thanks a lot - should I try that with anything prefixed ?? > > Thanks, > Marc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thierry Herbelot [mailto:Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr] > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 11:40 AM > To: Marc Silver > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Problem with ppp.linkup > > Marc Silver wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > Please could one of you help with my *little* problem. I am trying to get > > the following command to execute when my ppp link comes up. > > > > 'fetchmail -f /etc/ppp/.fetchmailrc' > > Use the full path : /usr/local/bin/fetchmail ? > > TfH > > > > > I have tried adding this to the ppp.linkup file in /etc/ppp, but for some > > reason it just doesn't work....I have also tried to prefix this with both > > '!bg "' and also "!sh -c", but neither of them worked. > > > > I am using FreeBSD 3.1 > > > > Any help as to the syntax would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Marc > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------5626E3AD363AA6D67638608D Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="thierry.herbelot.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Thierry Herbelot Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thierry.herbelot.vcf" begin:vcard n:Herbelot;Thierry tel;work:(+33) 1 46 52 47 23 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot org:CIT Nanterre adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr x-mozilla-cpt:;-22032 fn:Thierry Herbelot end:vcard --------------5626E3AD363AA6D67638608D-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message