Tim wrote:
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.
That looks great! I agree with you about using different polling
periods... I do that sort of thing too, usually picking prime numbers
for similar reasons.... increased entropy to make the universe happy. :-)
Does the -d option override the daemon option if coded in the
~/.fetchmailrc file? man fetchmail doesn't provide that detail.
Regardless, I think it's a good idea to provide the period here,
ensuring fetchmail is started in daemon mode in case the individual user
left that out of their .fetchmailrc file.
Thanks :-)
