Cron Jobs

[Mollatt Ntini]

----- Original Message -----
From: "D u n c c s" <drack at mweb.co.zw>


> Mollat , your script looks really fine so do your cronjobs , having mail
> collection upon connection can be a bit tricky coz it will mean should u
not
> connect u wll not get anything and also shuld u connect @8 in the morning
> and remian connected till 12 then u will not get anything in between..But
> having a cron will mean yo server is forced by the script (read yo script)
> to connect and download mails .I am sure letting cron do the trick is the
> best than allowing mail dequeing by connection. I would have of much help
if
> u had said your cron is not running
>

If its as you say Dunccs how do I fix it. If its a problem with the cron,
then help fix the cron. You know better, I know you have seen the script and
how unbecoming it is becoming :), Its getting me in arms with my people what
with mail delays etc.

>
> Duncan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anish Mathew" <nedumannilanish at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "Mollatt Ntini" <mntini at mweb.co.zw>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion
> list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Cron Jobs
>
>
> make ur script running from the ifup-dev script located in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. this will let u work ur script whenever ur
> dialup connection is up.
>
> Anish
> Mollatt Ntini <mntini at mweb.co.zw> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Guys I need your help here.I am using RHL 7.3, Dialing up to my ISP who
> assigns me a static IP on connection. I am supposed to send an ETRN to my
> host server so I can get emails for my domain example.com. For this I
wrote
> a script which is supposed to send an ETRN and then send emails in the
> mailq. My problem is I never seem to get it working in my crontab.
Basically
> I have a script written which is syncmail and a log file syncmail.log all
in
> /etc/ppp/*. My script looks like this :
>
> #! /bin/bash
> echo Starting the Mail Synchronisation "at: "`date` >>
/etc/ppp/syncmail.log
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
> /etc/ppp/etrn -s hostserver.com &>/dev/null
>
> and my cron looks like this:
>
> 10 06-18 * * 1-5 /etc/ppp/syncmail
> 10 06-18/3 * * 0,6 /etc/ppp/syncmail
> 10 02 * * * /etc/ppp/syncmail
>
>
> What I want to happen is to be able to collect mail automatically without
> having to push for mail manually, the cron is supposed to do that at least
> hourly. Any suggestions.
>
> thanx
>
> Molla.
>
>
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