I've been using fetchpop to grab my mail from my ISP. I recently got
diald up and working and now I want to run fetchpop as a daemon process.
I've set up a script (using apmd as a guide) in /etc/init.d called
fetchpop and it contains the following:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Start or stop fetchpop as a daemon.
#
test -s /usr/bin/fetchpop || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting fetchpop as a mail daemon"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /bin/su -- redwards -l -c
"/usr/bin/fetchpop -d -r -l ~/fetchpop.log"
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping the fetchpop daemon process"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/fetchpop -- -q
rm /home/redwards/.lockfetch-golgotha
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/fetchpop {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
Then I went into each of the rc0.d through rc6.d subdirectories and
created a symbolic link called K40fetchpop. This link simply points to
../init.d/fetchpop.
If boot the system and log in as root, go into /etc/init.d and type
"fetchpop start" the program works perfectly. Likewise, a similar
"fetchpop stop" works fine too. But for some reason, the program isn't
getting started automatically at bootup. Can anyone see an error and/or
tell me why/what I'm doing wrong? If so, I'd greatly appreciate it along
with any suggestions you might have.
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