Circa 2002-Feb-17 17:53:05 +0000 dixit Sean Rima:
: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, dman verbalised:
: > As for a deamon :
: > sh -c "while [ 1 ] ; do sleep 10m ; exim -q ; done" &
:
: sh -c "while [ -e /var/run/ppp0.pid ] ; do sleep 10m ; exim -q ; done" &
Geez, you folks like to make things far too complicated. How about:
exim -q10m
when pppd comes up, and:
kill `cat /var/run/exim.pid-q10m`
when it goes down? No extra shell process running 'sleep' that way.
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