From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 14:47: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chickasaw.gate.net (chickasaw.gate.net [198.206.134.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CB114C3D for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjm@gate.net) Received: from tiwa.gate.net (wjm@tiwa.gate.net [199.227.0.141]) by chickasaw.gate.net (8.8.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA53740; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:44:15 -0400 Received: from localhost (wjm@localhost) by tiwa.gate.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA59476; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:47:48 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: tiwa.gate.net: wjm owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:47:48 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson 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 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? % I'd put a simple shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d in which it starts off by sleeping for say... 30 seconds (or however long it'll take for your box to come up and establish network connection) then execute fetchmail accordingly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message