Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:33:07AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > set daemon 5 This line tells fetchmail to run in dameon mode (in the background) and to poll your mail servers every 5(!) seconds. man fetchmail is your friend. -rob msg12477/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:03:57AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Yes, adding a 'fetchmail' (possibly with a -d option) at the end will > work. If fetchmail does not run in the background you will > have to wait till it is done to complete your login. did that. by the way, usually when i login and

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> oh okay. got it. anyway, one small question, where is my Sandip> login script and is it enough to append it with fetchmail Sandip> to do the needful? For bash, the files read at an interactive login are the first one that exists of ~/

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-10 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:52:32AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > Sandip> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran > Sandip> wrote: > >> This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not > >> there a way in wh

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-09 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: Sandip> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran Sandip> wrote: >> This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not >> there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for >> > .fetchmailrc files i

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:38:22AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > is not there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for > > .fetchmailrc files in different user directories? > > - sandip > > Sadly, no. This is the difference

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > is not there a way in which i can ask the fetchmail daemon to look for > .fetchmailrc files in different user directories? > - sandip Sadly, no. This is the difference between system-wide and per-user jobs. Can you imagine the overhead if fe

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:43:33AM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >hello all! > > > >when i boot up my system, it shows a message that reads - systemwide > >fetchmail not configured. > > > The only thing you have to do to get what you want is to create the > /etc/fetch

Re: systemwide fetchmail

2002-11-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! when i boot up my system, it shows a message that reads - systemwide fetchmail not configured. well, i will like to setup fetchmail in such a way that at boot up, fetchmail is started in background - (as a daemon?) and then it does fetchmail for users as they