On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:52, MKlinke wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 21:21, Marc Adler wrote: > > I want to have fetchmail start up automatically, because as it is I > > have to type "fetchmail" (twice for some reason) at the shell prompt > > before it goes and fetches my mail. I looked at some of the scripts > > in /etc/init.d, but couldn't figure out how to simply write one for > > fetchmail. Is there a simple way? I tried serviceconf, but fetchmail > > wasn't in the list. > > > > Thanks, > > > Here's a script that works under RH9 for me. It's set up as a daemon > that runs every 900 seconds. If you downloaded fetchmail in the > tarball fashion it's a slight modification from the one found in the > contrib directory... > > > #!/bin/sh > # > # fetchmail This shell script takes care of starting and stopping > # fetchmail. > # > # chkconfig: 2345 81 45 > # description: The Fetchmail daemons allows to retrieve mail using > various > # mail protocols and route them to the local MTA just as if > # the mail was sent directly to the local MTA. This is > # specially useful on intermittent dial-up connections. > # processname: fetchmail > # config: /etc/fetchmailrc > # author[s]: > # Andrea Sterbini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # ObiTuarY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <SNIP>
Another option is to have cron earn its keep. Add something like this to your crontab */5 * * * * fetchmail >> /var/log/fetchmail.log Johnie -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
