Handling mail on a dialup connection

[Robert Golovniov]

Hello,

  I  would  like to create an hourly cron to have the machine bring up
  the dialup connection, check for the new mail (with fetchmail), send
  any  outgoing  messages (with postfix) and then bring the connection
  down.

  To  make  things  more  complicated, I would like to use this dialup
  session  to  automatically  update  my  virus  databases for clamav,
  f-prot, and Panda AV.

  I  think  I  could  figure out how to set each of these processes in
  cron,  but  I am not sure how to tell the script that it should wait
  for  one  process  to  finish before it starts performing the second
  task. What is the best place to look for more information on that?

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             -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=-
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