Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:40:18 +0000 From: "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg> To: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <20020728174018.GA235@earth.dpsca.bg> In-Reply-To: <20020728134345.52515.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020728100127.GA371@earth.dpsca.bg> <20020728134345.52515.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 06:43:45AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote:
>Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 06:43:45 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6
>To: "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg>
>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
>
>--- "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg> wrote:
>> and try
>> this in ppp.linkup:
>>
>> ! /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d <interval>
>
>Should I drop the 'sh' after the '!'??
Yes, but if you keep it it's not error, read bellow.
>BTW what is this '!' for? From my understanding I am not denying any
>argument... (I didn't find it on the manual...)
# man ppp:
[snip]
shell|! [command]
If command is not specified a shell is invoked according to the SHELL
environment variable. Otherwise, the given command is executed.
Word replacement is done in the same way as for the ``!bg'' command
as described above.
Use of the ! character requires a following space as with any of the
other commands. You should note that this command is executed in the
foreground; ppp will not continue running until this process has
exited. Use the bg command if you wish processing to happen in the
background.
[snip]
>
>thanks
>
>PR
>
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Regards,
D. Penev
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