Ok, tried this and no joy. Any other ideas? When I run fetchmail-up from root's home dir, it seems to work (at least it dials ok). Perhaps the problem is the order in which things are started. How can I set things up to be sure that diald has been started before fetchmail-up runs.
BTW, here is the fetchmail-up script I'm refering to: #!/bin/sh test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && \ /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 600 --syslog --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc TIA for any advice! On 31 Dec, Kevin Traas wrote: >> My question is: instead of having fetchmail start up from ip-up, >>how to I get it going by itself? In other words, I want to start >>fetchmail in daemon mode during the boot sequence. I know it has to be >>after diald gets started, or the thing won't work the first time out. >>Where do I put the fetchmail-up script to make this happen properly? > > > Add a script to /etc/rc.boot called "fetchmail" or something. Be sure the > first line of the script indicates the shell to run the script (i.e. > "#!/bin/sh) and make sure the script is "chown root:root" and "chmod 0750". > > I can't remember for sure or not - it's been a while since I worked with > fetchmail - but you may have to do a "/bin/su -c 'command line to run > fetchmail' <username>" to get fetchmail to run as a user other than root.... > But, probably all you'll have to do is move the fetchmail line out of ip-up > and into the new script created above. > > Hope this helps! > > Later, > Kevin Traas > -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse