Subj : Poll
To   : Jon Justvig
From : Michael Dukelsky
Date : Fri Mar 04 2016 09:27 pm

Hello Jon,

Friday March 04 2016, Jon Justvig wrote to All:

 JJ> Could someone tell me how to automatically poll my uplink on a
 JJ> schedule.  I'm running Linux.  I have to manually poll and I would
 JJ> like to get net/echomail on a regular basis so I can send to my
 JJ> downlinks.  Thanks.

$ crontab -e
*/15 * * * * poll_my_uplink.sh

That will make polls every 15 minutes, see `man 1 crontab` and `man 5 crontab`. 
The 'crontab -e' command opens vi on default, so if you do not like it you have 
to write

export EDITOR=/path/to/your/favorite/editor

somewhere in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.local or some other place depending 
on your linux distribution.

There is also another way. You may ask your uplink to send you your mail 
directly after she/he receives it. Then it will be enough for you to poll one 
or two times a day just to be on the safe side.

Michael

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