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Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup



Roberto C. Sánchez:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:21:45PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> Roberto C. Sánchez:
>>> 
>>> To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and
>>> put '@startup fetchmail'
>> 
>> Oh, and BTW: it's "@reboot", not "@startup". :)
>> 
> Doh!  My mistake.  I was going from memory and didn't want to login to
> the machine that has the crontab entry to check.  :-)

I had to look it up, too. @reboot is a misnomer in my opinion, anyway.
It appears to be run only on warm boots while in fact it is run at every
startup.

J.
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