[LIH] pppd help followup question

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Hi,

How do I cut the connection after fetchmail ??

Thanks,

Murali
-----Original Message-----
From: Babu Kalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 March 2000 22:15
Subject: Re: [LIH] pppd help


>On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:13:39AM +0530, Kedar Patankar typed:
>>
>> Create a file ip-up.local in /etc/ppp. Add the following to that
>> file.
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q &
>> fetchmail
>
>There could be a problem in running fetchmail through ip-up. According to
>one of the files in the fetchmail source distribution (the file "ip-up" in
>the contrib directory), pppd masks out several signals during the run of
>the ip-up script. This reportedly causes fetchmail to lose timeout signals
>and thus appear to hang in case of connection failures.
>
>Don't know if the problem has been fixed in newer versions of fetchmail
>(and/or pppd). The reference quoted above is dated 1997 (but is still a
part
>of the 5.2.4 distribution)
>
>Kala
>
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