Re: Fetchmail

["Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 04:41:18AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> Instead of running Fetchmail through crond, why not run it as a
> daemon? There is an option to do this -- I believe by adding daemon on a
> line of its own in .fetchmailrc, though I don't recall for sure.

    Or you can do it on the command-line. 

ie. fetchmail -d 300 --logfile $HOME/.fetchmail.log

    I should hack something into init.d and get this started when the system
boots. Maybe go around to each user account and test if they have a
.fetchmailrc, and start it for them if they do?

    Mike