Dear Debianers
I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my
account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the
program?
Thanks in advance!
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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:20:47PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Dear Debianers
I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my
account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the
program?
You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be
I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my
account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the
program?
You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed
after you login.
Might be better to add it to his .bash_profile, unless he's
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:35:37PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote:
I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my
account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the
program?
You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed
after you
You may benefit from also checking out getmail. It's simpler, cleaner and may
be less prone to dropping mail (a fact advertised by
the author of getmail). I find it works really well, particularly when
combined with wmbiff. Wmbiff can be set up to execute getmail
whenever its polling detects
I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to do
it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How can I
prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several consoles?
Thank's
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Daniel de los Reyes
Have you checked fetchmails homepage? I remember seeing a FAQ or something
there describing how to do this. The gist of it revolved around
creating/removing temporary files using ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_logout
using a specific file mask, ~/.bash_logout would look for other files, and if
I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time
I log in but I don't want to do it manually.Is
bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it
from? How can I prevent it form being launched
several times if I login at several consoles?
I don't believe fetchmail will run multiple instances of
Here are the scripts that I use (modified from the
ones in the contrib directory of the fetchmail distro)
~/.bash_profile
# Start Fetchmail up when I Login.
#- modified from script in contrib section
#- 1/24/01 Vinod Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, use .bash_profile.
When you invoke fetchmail, if it is already running as a daemon it
will simply wake the daemon process and cause it to check at that
time. Then in your .bash_logout file put fetchmail --kill to
terminate the daemon when you logout. (Unless you want to to run all
the
Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to
do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How
can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several
consoles?
Here's how I do it. First, I
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