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32 Seeing Eric tip us that we could run a "fetchmail -quit" in the
33 "ip-down" script, I thougt it would be neat to run a fetchmail
34 collection in the "ip-up" script. That way mail is collected
35 automatically every time I am connecting to Internet for whatever reason
36 (I use "diald" to automatically manage my connection).
38 However, it did not work. It hung right after the POP3 login. I tracked
39 this down to the fact that the "pppd" masks a wide range of signals and
40 this means a time-out does not kick in. As I run the "ip-up" script in
41 "bash" this masking is inheritied by "fetchmail".
43 So, I wrote a silly little "C" program that unmasks all signals and then
44 runs a command of you choice (in this case fetchmail). This is the code
50 main(int argc,char * argv[])
57 sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK,&set,NULL);
62 I call it "allsigs". So, now in my "ip-up" I have the line :-
64 allsigs "fetchmail -f /etc/fetahmail"
66 Note the quotes as "allsigs" only looks at argv[1]. I guess this
67 unmasking of all signals could be added into "fetchmail" ?