On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:16, Steven Stern wrote: > I want to run fetchmail under my user account at startup. What's the best way > to launch it? > > I tried using cron with "fetchmail -d 600", but that generates errors for all > subsequent invocations. > > Where can I put init entries for specific, non-root accounts? Can't you just run a cron job like this: */12 * * * * fetchmail >> $HOME/mail/fetchmail.log 2>&1 That would collect your mail every 12 minutes. Works for any user. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
