If youe using 'wvdial' for connecting to internet and running fetchmail
and sendmail -q from ip-up then add this to your crontab
crontab -e
0 10-19/2 * * * wvdial
also check man pages for fetchmail, wvdial, cron
best wishes,
Indraneel
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, anand burli wrote:
> Hi
> I have just started using Linux (Red Hat 6.0). I have set up a mail server
> using sendmail & fetchmail.
> I have been trying to automate these two alongwith internet dialling.
> I have generated the scripts for dialling ppp, for receiving & sending
> e-mails. can anyone guide me as to how I can create a schedule to do these
> regularly at an interval of say 2 hours from morning 10:00 to 7.00 pm.
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