[plug] Running fetchmail (or any terminal program) from a web page.

[John Summerfield]

> Hiya all,
> 
> Just wondering about peoples experience/advice on running a shell program
> (like fetchmail) and sending the results to a screen. I have seen a very
> good use of the exec command in shtml file that enabled the user to bring up
> (or down) a pp connection and would like to implement the same idea for
> fetchmail.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas/advice on how to do this sort of thing ?

fetchmails a daemon. If you use it with a dialip connection, start it from 
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local, take it down in /etc/ppp/ip-down.local.

Otherwise, just let it run all the time.

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Cheers
John Summerfield
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