Re: quicky question about cron

pumfvc_at_hakfkb.com
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:01:52 GMT

|> You don't need cron, fetchmail can run as a daemon with a specified
|> period. What's more, SUSE has provided a ready to go init script, but
|> unfortunately there is no sysconfig setting for controlling the period
|> except to edit the script, something normally to be avoided.
|
|I looked at that but didn't like the idea because I have no idea at all how
|to get the system to start it up for the user in question (not root) on
|startup so I thought use what's already in place.

Maybe you looked but you didn't understand. /etc/fetchmailrc controls it
and fetches any user's mail. 

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