Andreas Rapp wrote:
> I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time > as a regular user, not as root > (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to > my account) > > Can regular users also have boot scripts ? > > Andreas > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You can use crontab for that. First setup the file ~/.fetchmailrc for each user in your system. Then add a line to /etc/crontab for each user, there you will tell crontab how many times to check for email. This is how mine looks like: /etc/crontab <snip> # Added by rosarior for automatic mail check # Min-Hr-Dom-Moy-Dow-User-Command 05 7,17,21,0 * * * rosarior fetchmail -s 25 7,17,21,0 * * * apontet fetchmail -s 45 7,17,21,0 * * * gordonc fetchmail -s The line "05 7,17,21,0 * * * rosarior fetchmail -s"; tells crontab to execute the command "fetchmail -s" as user rosarior every time the minutes is 05 and the hour is 7,17,21,0 (7:05 am, 5:05pm, 9:05pm and 12:05am) the * is a wildcard character (Dom- every day of the month, Moy every month of the year and Dow- every Day of the week) and in case of error any output is sent to that user's mailbox and not to root. I use increments of 20 minutes for each user to lower the traffic in case the ppp connection speed is slow. Hope this is of help. Later/Robert.
