> 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? The fetchmail rons as a daemon and should only be run once. From man: Only one daemon process is permitted per user; in daemon mode, fetch- mail makes a per-user lockfile to guarantee this. You could make it part of your gnome startup programs. preference/sessions/startup programs. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097