On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:12 +0100, Henning Larsen wrote: > I have .fetchmailrc for all users in /root, and get the message that > fetchmail should not be run as root. Where should I put .fetchmailrc > and how should I start it, from rc.local? or as a service. In my rc.local files I have lines like the following (below). And each user has their ~/.fetchmailrc file set for whatever servers their accounts will poll. su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" su john -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1200" su jane -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1500" I picked different polling periods so that mail runs will not run at the same time as each other (spreading the workload around). Any user can stop their own automatic poll, and restart it, if they want to. I only roughly picked different time periods, if I really wanted to ensure that they hardly ever ran at the same time, I'd have used prime numbers. But I'm too lazy to bother to work out large prime numbers, and I don't think it's that important for me. It'd be different if you had a large number of users, then it might be quite beneficial. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, 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.
