On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:52:32AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh <Sandip> writes: > > Sandip> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran > Sandip> wrote: > >> This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not > >> there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for > >> > .fetchmailrc files in different user directories? > - sandip > >> > >> Sadly, no. This is the difference between system-wide and > >> per-user jobs. Can you imagine the overhead if fetchmail had > >> to sort over 11,000 different user accounts, see who has a > >> .fetchmailrc, and start up a seperate process for each? > > Sandip> the same can happen if these users were to fire fetchmail > Sandip> from their respective logins? may be fetchmail daemon > Sandip> should not look for 'all' users but only those who have > Sandip> logged in > > The point Stephen made was that the .fetchmailrc file exists exactly > so that users can control what is fetched, when it is fetched, and how > is fetched. The systemwide daemon exists for the administrator to > control these parameters for a class of users. > oh okay. got it. anyway, one small question, where is my login script and is it enough to append it with fetchmail to do the needful?
thanx again - sandip -- If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for. -- W.C. Fields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]