On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:06:07PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > There seems to be a race between daemonised openvpn trying to bring up network > and fetchmail (or the like) trying to connect to a pop server that can only > be accessed via VPN tunnel. In my particular case, this results in: > > - fetchmail not checking mail in its first run. > - /me being unable to set an high sleep period, since I would have to wait > too much every time the machine is started. > > I assume there could be other (maybe worse) problems because of this. Would > you consider blocking openvpn initialisation untill the network is brought up?
Hi Robert, I think the solution in this case is in your hands, more than in mine. You'd probably want to use 'openvpn foobar' in /etc/network/interfaces, or /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to start openvpn only when the network is up. Instead of having it started on system initialization. Other option could be starting fetchmail with openvpn's 'up' option (and up-delay). Regards, Alberto p.s. I was hoping to see you in DC9. -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
