110220 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 20.02.2011 15:04, schrieb Philip Webb: >> I fetch my mail using a user cron job, as recommended for security. >> Usually, this works very well, but occasionally the cron job runs >> before the Dhcpcd command has made the necessary connection >> which results in a file ~/dead.letter , which has to be deleted >> Is there a way to fix this ? -- I could perhaps write a 2-line script >> which would run 'dhcpcd eth0 ; /etc/init.d/vixie-cron', >> while removing Vixie-cron from the Default runlevel. > When dhcpcd runs, there should be the following files: > /var/run/dhcpcd.pid <<-- not this one > /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid <<-- yes > Just change your cron job to look like > 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail'
That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail, so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs. Thanks for all the suggestions, which I will add to my Linux notes. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
