I've got a small class C network at home with a dial-up connection through
a box running RH 6.0 to Demon. This has worked fine so far. Whenever I
dial in, the gateway box becomes a node on the internet and sendmail
flushes its queue and receives from Demon's SMTP server at the other end.
However, in a (perhaps misguided) effort to save money, I'm thinking about
a free ISP which has a POP3 server for incoming mail. This seems to
require fetchmail (with which I haven't had to bother so far) and since
it's a dial-up account, I don't want it running as a daemon. All the
literature I've consulted tells me that ip-up is the place to put commands
which I want run when ppp is active. However, RH tells me not to edit the
supplied ip-up file but to put user commands in a file called ip-up.local.
I've created this, chmod +x and even run it by hand (./ip-up.local at the
prompt) but it doesn't seem to get invoked automatically when the link
comes up. Any ideas how to get automation to work?
Also, is it possible to have a global .fetchmailrc file? My wife has a
separate mailbox to me but if I run fetchmail using my ~/.fetchmailrc
file, it doesn't poll her mailbox. I don't particularly want to include
her mailbox details in my ~/.fetchmailrc file.
Sorry for the long inquiry but any help would be gratefully received.
James
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