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