I have a basic script to watching mailbox for new emails with cygwin/getmail, that works OK, BUT, occasionally, ADSL goes down, generally, it comes back promptly, though, not always
as a crude workaround, I looped the script to itself as so, that works, but, if ADSL is down for longer time, it just loops endlessly and unnecessarily: $ cat sms #! /bin/sh cd /home/voytek LOG="/home/voytek/sms-record.log" echo `date` "started" >> "$LOG" cd getmail ./getmail -i folder echo `date` "ended" >> "$LOG" /home/voytek/sms how can I make some basic connectivity test (against the mail server) to delay getmail until connectivity exists ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
