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.
Tim, that worked great... while I was in /etc/rc.local I added another
line to send a short e-mail message saying the system restarted and to
check things out. This way I'll be notified of any unscheduled restarts
too. (power fail/restore or whatever)
