On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:27:13AM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Awuku Danso wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm currently running fetchmail as a user with a .fetchmailrc from the user's home >directory and it seems to work fine. What I really do want is to run it as a service >or daemon at boot time without any user intervention i.e without logging in to the >machine at all. In effect I want the fetchmailrc file to be system-wide. > > Wouldn't it be better to put it back as say /root/.fetchmailrc and then > run the cron job as "root" ? Then it would be able to read the > /root/.fecthmailrc file and distribute to the other users mboxes?
FWIW, this is how I set fetchmail up when I had it running for multiple users. Just ran the job as root and had my .fetchmailrc in /root/. Worked very well for me. /jft -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list