-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGAoUmS9HxQb37XmcRAm/zAKDFB/V0zJf9S/OX9b71BdyKJBWu7wCdFe9C /XnaUM1sPhtflaFkbCfr394= =hYYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]