Re: Poll fetchmail only when ppp is up

> Le Van Chi:
> #crontab -e
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /root/runfetchmail    #run fetchmail every 10
> minutes
> #cat /root/runfetchmail
>
> if [ -r /var/run/ppp0.pid]; then
> fetchmail -f ~/.fetchmailrc
> fi
that's about the same approach i use.  in the linkup file a file is
created as a sentinel to a crontab-script, which runs fetchmail only
if this file is present.  linkdown, therefor, removes the file.

clemens