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Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup



Ron Johnson:
> On 03/22/07 08:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>>> 
>> 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 ?

No. Things in crontabs are started by cron (d'ouh!). And cron itself is
already started by an init script.

J.
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