From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 1 5:20:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874C715668 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 05:20:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18049; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:20:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05288; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:19:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199906011219.NAA05288@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Marc Silver Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with ppp.linkup In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:04:51 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:19:52 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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