From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 13:16:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.extremezone.com (enterprise.extremezone.com [208.129.255.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4132D15AF2 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from screen@screenenvy.com) Received: from ip-245-29-78.phx.extremezone.com (ip-245-29-78.phx.extremezone.com [204.245.29.78]) by enterprise.extremezone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02890; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:12:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:10:15 -0700 (MST) From: Lucas Nealan To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail In-Reply-To: <19990920154732.A293@rknebel.uplink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Create the following file: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.sh containing: #!/bin/sh [ -x /usr/local/bin/fetchmail ] && /usr/local/bin/fetchmail && echo -n \ ' fetchmail' This works for me on 3.2. Remember to change the fetchmail path if yours is different. On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I want to start fetchmail as root during bootup. > What file should I put it into? > > Thanks > Rick > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message