Matt Florido wrote: > Thanks. Here's part of my init script: > start() { > echo -n $"Starting Fetchmail: " > /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 180 If it's any help, I've got this working fine. The equivalent part of my script is daemon fetchmail -d 500 --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc Off the top of my head, I'm not sure whether $HOME is set to /root at this point of the boot sequence. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't. Maybe explicitly stating the path to the fetchmailrc would be a good idea. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | It would save me a lot of time if you just gave up @westexe.demon.co.uk | and went mad now.