On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 20:14 -0700, Don Russell wrote: > Is there a (standard/best practices) way to start fetchmail > automatically when the system starts? I've googled and seen that it's > easy, just "service fetchmail start", but when I try that as root, I get > an error that says fetchmail is an unrecognized service. In my /etc/rc.local I have entries like this, one per user: su janedoe -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" su johndoe -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 913" NB: I picked different poll periods so everything doesn't happen at once, all the time. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
