Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:01:25 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Robert Golovniov <g-r-v@ukr.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handling mail on a dialup connection Message-ID: <404CB4F5.1030009@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <200403081801.i28I1pbS070211@gw.core> References: <200403081801.i28I1pbS070211@gw.core>
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Robert Golovniov wrote: >Hello, > > I would like to create an hourly cron to have the machine bring up > the dialup connection, check for the new mail (with fetchmail), send > any outgoing messages (with postfix) and then bring the connection > down. > > To make things more complicated, I would like to use this dialup > session to automatically update my virus databases for clamav, > f-prot, and Panda AV. > > I think I could figure out how to set each of these processes in > cron, but I am not sure how to tell the script that it should wait > for one process to finish before it starts performing the second > task. What is the best place to look for more information on that? > > > I'd write a shell script that did everything, then invoke that script with cron. PWR.
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