Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:19:52 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Marc Silver <marcs@icon.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with ppp.linkup Message-ID: <199906011219.NAA05288@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:04:51 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906011053430.8209-100000@gummi.is.co.za>
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There are some examples in /usr/share/examples/ppp/ppp.linkup (or
/etc/ppp on older systems).
> 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'
>
> 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
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