From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:39:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110221053943.GA3751@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110220181804.GA3724@ca.inter.net>
110220 Philip Webb wrote:
> 110220 Florian Philipp wrote:
>> Just change your cron job to look like
>> 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail'
> That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail,
> so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs.
Indeed it does: I tried delaying starting the I/net connection
& there is no 'dead.letter' file. Thanks again.
PS the file is /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid , not as above.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-20 14:04 [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit Philip Webb
2011-02-20 15:27 ` Florian Philipp
2011-02-20 18:18 ` Philip Webb
2011-02-21 5:39 ` Philip Webb [this message]
2011-02-21 10:23 ` [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved YoYo Siska
2011-02-21 11:32 ` Adam Carter
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