From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 22 11:13:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02595 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02560 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA10631; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:12:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA10290; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:54:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810221354.OAA10290@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Robert Huff cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: retrieving email In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:02:03 EDT." <199810211902.PAA09712@shell1.cybercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:54:16 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Welcome to the club. While I run fetchmail from somewhere > else, I've pretty much conlcuded the "!bg" function is broken. I've > tried running a number things using it and get at most an > intermittant 20% success rate. And I'm talking simple stuff here; > don't get me started on the complex scripts with device contention > issues. I use ``!bg'' every time I connect to cat an audio file into a remote /dev/audio so that I know when the connection is up. It works 100% of the time - it also plays another sound from ppp.linkdown. Can you supply any evidence of the failure ? The only thing that people may not be aware of here is that executing a command from a configuration file will redirect I/O to /dev/null whereas executing a command from a ppp prompt will connect stdio to your command prompt. > Robert Huff -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message