On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:54:05AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Jian Jun Wang: > > I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail > > to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did > > 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root > > 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon > > 3. edit $HOME/.fetchmailrc > > The system-wide fetchmail daemon doesn' use users' .fetchmailrc but only > reads /etc/fetchmailrc. > To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and put '@startup fetchmail' (no quotes in either case). Then, whenever your machine starts up, it should start fetchmail for you.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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