-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/07 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ron Johnson: >> 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. > > Yes, mine does that, too. But: if every user needing fetchmail has a > .fetchmailrc and the crontab entry mentioned above (minus the typo), you > do not need the system-wide daemon. That's the situation I was referring > to (and which I quoted). > > If your /etc/fetchmailrc is empty anyway, you can edit > /etc/default/fetchmail to disable the system-wide fetchmail daemon > altogether. This solution has the advantage, that every user can manage > his/her own POP accounts (without the admin knowing their passwords), > but the disadvantage is that you have a fetchmail process for every > user.
Are you talking about having a fetchmail daemon for *each* user? > > J. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGAqScS9HxQb37XmcRAm6vAKC2CiXPUGyn+0J5K9y3QkkXChGIWACgjMUM ztllmJUXJE3FpRvyltpZZbI= =02/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
