Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup
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On 03/22/07 08:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:54:05AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> Jian Jun Wang:
>>> I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail
>>> to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did
>>> 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root
>>> 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon
>>> 3. edit $HOME/.fetchmailrc
>> The system-wide fetchmail daemon doesn' use users' .fetchmailrc but only
>> reads /etc/fetchmailrc.
>>
> To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and
> put '@startup fetchmail' (no quotes in either case). Then, whenever
> your machine starts up, it should start fetchmail for you.
Shouldn't it also put a symlink in /etc/rc3.d ?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
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