On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 20:40, Awuku Danso wrote: > Hi all > I'm currently running fetchmail as a user with a .fetchmailrc from the user's home >directory and it seems to work fine. What I really do want is to run it as a service >or daemon at boot time without any user intervention i.e without logging in to the >machine at all. In effect I want the fetchmailrc file to be system-wide. > > So I made a copy of the .fetchmailrc file and placed it in the /etc directory >(/etc/fetchmailrc) and later run fetchmail with the -d option from >/etc/rc.d/rc.local. But this hasn't worked even though in principle I think it >should. It seems to me that I'm missing a few tricks and that I'm not too far away >from getting it right. Does anyone know if this is possible and has anyone tried it? >Any tricks or tips from anyone would be very much appreciated. > > Awuku Danso >
Wouldn't it be better to put it back as say /root/.fetchmailrc and then run the cron job as "root" ? Then it would be able to read the /root/.fecthmailrc file and distribute to the other users mboxes? -- OzIT Support * http://www.ozitsupport.com.au -------------------------------------------- Stephen Kuhn | Help Desk Professional -------------------------------------------- Australia's Premier Computer Specialists Call us at: 1-902-225-000 -------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
