Don Russell wrote: > I have FC5 and recently started using fetchmail to poll my collection of > pop3 accounts on various sites (work, gmail, isp, etc) > > It works fine but recently I restarted the machine due to a new kernel > and forgot to start fetchmail manually. No mail was lost of course, but > I was wondering why I wasn't getting much mail for a day... (I say "much > mail" because I was getting the mail that is sent to my smtp server > directly) > > 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. > > I want it to start automatically, just as apache, sendmail (smtpd) etc > do... I don't want it to wait until I log on to my userid because I > often access my mail from another system via IMAP (if I'm on the local > network) or SquirellMail if I'm "outside". > > [root@boris ~]# service fetchmail start > fetchmail: unrecognized service > [root@boris ~]# rpm -q fetchmail > fetchmail-6.3.4-0.fc5.1 > > I run fetchmail in daemon mode, starting it from the CLI (when I > remember) :-) Don't use fetchmail....but couldn't this be done just as easily as a cron job without using daemon mode? -- If God had intended Man to Watch TV, He would have given him Rabbit Ears.
