Help w/YARNIO.CMD/other unattended fetch scripts

Peter Donald (neurolab@psyc.queensu.ca)
Thu, 28 Nov 96 08:56:03 -0400

I'm trying to get Yarnio.cmd (included w/Vsoup) to work
properly, and not having much luck, so I thought I'd turn to the list
for help (I'm going on vacation for a couple of weeks, and I'd like to
set up a unattended script to log in/run (v)soup(er)/log out. I'm
using the latest DOIP as my dialer.

So far, I've been having two problems with Yarnio: first, the
main yarnio.cmd script doesn't seem to run Vsoup properly (it exits
with an error when trying to fetch news), which is odd, since if I run
vsoup manually with the same command line parameters it runs fine;
second, I haven't managed to get a working logoutisp.cmd script to drop
the connection after vsoup runs (I've been experimenting with using go
-k to kill slippm, but it doesn't seem to work).

Any suggestions for how to fix these problems (or another
script that will log on, fetch news+mail, and log off) would be greatly
appreciated. TIA.