Tim wrote: >> For the last umpteen years, I did this in /etc/rc.local: >> >> su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" >> >> But that won't work, anymore...
Ed Greshko: > Along with a systemd option there is cron and the crontab > specification @reboot. Okay, in unfamiliar territory here, so logged in as my user, I tried crontab -e and put @reboot "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" into it, then rebooted to see what would happen. It didn't do what I expected, and I got this error message back: /bin/sh: /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900: No such file or directory Which seems odd, as "/usr/bin/fetchmail" does exist. Next, as logged in as the root user, I tried "crontab -e" and entered this into it: @reboot su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" And that does seem to work. So I can put all the different users into the root crontab. Not sure when I should have kept the "su tim -c" prefix with an individual user's crontab, it doesn't seem logical. It's also odd that when logged in as root, I can fire off my original command line, manually, and they'll work fine. And root's crontab can fire off my original command line, and it'll work. But the new rc.local service won't do it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
