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From James.Stevens@jrcs.co.uk  Mon Aug 25 18:11:36 1997
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illa 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "fetchmail-friends@locke.ccil.org" <fetchmail-friends@locke.ccil.org> Subject: A Little Tip... X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"lhVgRB.A.FFE.bxC-z"@locke.ccil.org> Resent-From: fetchmail-friends@ccil.org X-Mailing-List: <fetchmail-friends@ccil.org> archive/latest/725 X-Loop: fetchmail-friends@ccil.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: fetchmail-friends-request@ccil.org Status: RO Seeing Eric tip us that we could run a "fetchmail -quit" in the "ip-down" script, I thougt it would be neat to run a fetchmail collection in the "ip-up" script. That way mail is collected automatically every time I am connecting to Internet for whatever reason (I use "diald" to automatically manage my connection). However, it did not work. It hung right after the POP3 login. I tracked this down to the fact that the "pppd" masks a wide range of signals and this means a time-out does not kick in. As I run the "ip-up" script in "bash" this masking is inheritied by "fetchmail". So, I wrote a silly little "C" program that unmasks all signals and then runs a command of you choice (in this case fetchmail). This is the code for that program :- #include <stdio.h> #include <signal.h> main(int argc,char * argv[]) { sigset_t set; if (argc>1) { sigfillset(&set); sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK,&set,NULL); system(argv[1]); } } I call it "allsigs". So, now in my "ip-up" I have the line :- allsigs "fetchmail -f /etc/fetahmail" Note the quotes as "allsigs" only looks at argv[1]. I guess this unmasking of all signals could be added into "fetchmail" ? James
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