On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:25 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> OK.  On my laptop I use a global /etc/fetchmailrc file because I like the
> cleanliness of running fetchmail as a daemon at startup rather than as a
> cron job as a user (Ugh.  Crude.  Ugly).  I decided to experiment on my
> desktop and try to use fetchmail in daemon mode but instead of an
> /etc/fetchmailrc, I have a ~/.fetchmailrc file.  Naturally, no worky.
>
> Is there a way to get fetchmail, the DAEMON, to use my ~/.fetchmailrc file
> or am I going to have to copy it to /etc/fetchamilrc again?

Simply run fetchmail with the -f option and specify the exact fetchmailrc file 
that you want it to use.  IE.  fetchmail -d 180 -f /home/user/.fetchmailrc

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Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


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