On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 10:03:47PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: | Hi all, | | I've been typing fetchmail -d 300 to start up fetchmail after | rebooting in order to get my mail. I seem to be rebooting often,
Are you always connected to the internet? If not you may only want to run fetchmail when your connection is up. In my case, I'm the only user on my machine, so I have a ~/.fetchmailrc directing the fetchmail daemon what to do. Then, I put I script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d named fetchmail that runs when my ppp connection is up. I basically gleaned this from somewhere(??). It runs under my user permissions, though there is certainly a way to run it as user mail and have it get all of the mail for all of your users based on their ~/.fetchmailrc entries. #!/bin/sh PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin export PATH su -c 'fetchmail -d 300' eric I also have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d named fetchmail to stop the daemon. Though, I'm not sure this is necessary. #!/bin/sh # Kill fetchmail PATH=$PATH:/sbin/usr/sbin export $PATH su -c 'fetchmail --quit' eric If you're always connected, you could put a script in /etc/init.d and link it to the various runlevels using update-rc.d. You'll want to give it a high number, like S99fetchmail so it's one of the last things to get started. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
