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



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