> My question is: instead of having fetchmail start up from ip-up, >how to I get it going by itself? In other words, I want to start >fetchmail in daemon mode during the boot sequence. I know it has to be >after diald gets started, or the thing won't work the first time out. >Where do I put the fetchmail-up script to make this happen properly?
Add a script to /etc/rc.boot called "fetchmail" or something. Be sure the first line of the script indicates the shell to run the script (i.e. "#!/bin/sh) and make sure the script is "chown root:root" and "chmod 0750". I can't remember for sure or not - it's been a while since I worked with fetchmail - but you may have to do a "/bin/su -c 'command line to run fetchmail' <username>" to get fetchmail to run as a user other than root.... But, probably all you'll have to do is move the fetchmail line out of ip-up and into the new script created above. Hope this helps! Later, Kevin Traas
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