Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup
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On 03/22/07 08:18, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> 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.
I think you're wrong. My system does fetchmail startup using runlevels.
$ ls -l /etc/rc3.d/S99fet*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 16 2005 /etc/rc3.d/S99fetchmail ->
../init.d/fetchmail
$ ls -l /etc/init.d/fetch*
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7202 Mar 8 07:01 /etc/init.d/fetchmail
>
> J.
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