From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 7:42:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A4637B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 07:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.bg (dialup236.varna.spnet.net [213.169.38.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4A943E3B for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 07:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpenev@mail.bg) Received: from mail.bg (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bg (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6SHePer000365; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:40:26 GMT (envelope-from dpenev@mail.bg) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.bg (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6SHeIX6000364; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:40:18 GMT Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:40:18 +0000 From: "D. Penev" To: Paulo Roberto Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <20020728174018.GA235@earth.dpsca.bg> References: <20020728100127.GA371@earth.dpsca.bg> <20020728134345.52515.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020728134345.52515.qmail@web14910.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >Subject: Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 >To: "D. Penev" >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > >--- "D. Penev" wrote: >> and try >> this in ppp.linkup: >> >> ! /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d > >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 > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com -- Regards, D. Penev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message