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- From: jeroen@let.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
- Subject: Starting newmail automatically...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.133757.13071@let.ruu.nl>
- Reply-To: Jeroen.Scheerder@let.ruu.nl
- Organization: Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:37:57 GMT
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- I have a tiny problem trying to start newmail the following way:
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- * my .login file calls a file .startup if possible;
- * in .startup (which is different for all the machines I use)
- on some machines newmail is invoked.
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- The problem is, newmail decides not to run in this scheme. When I call
- it from .login there is no problem.
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- I suspect it has something to do with the parent process terminating:
- however, starting it as "nohup newmail" doesn't help, neither does
- using "source .startup" or "exec .startup".
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- Is this a bug, am I doing something wrong or am I trying the
- impossible?
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