Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:41:15 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting daemon only for user; gotta be simple? Message-ID: <20020307184115.GH69695@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020307191109.B94491@Deadcell.ant> References: <20020307181919.A94491@Deadcell.ant> <20020307173719.GH54208@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020307191109.B94491@Deadcell.ant>
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> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:11:09 +0100
> From: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
> To: Burhan Nazir <burhan@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Starting daemon only for user; gotta be simple?
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:37:19PM +0000, Burhan Nazir wrote:
> > Oh dear, that sounds like way too much work. Try this instead:
> >
> > fetchmail -d 60
> >
> > This will run fetchmail in deamon mode and will poll your servers (defined in
> > .fetchmailrc) every 60 seconds.
> >
>
> Thanks for your reply; I do know about that, but I am looking for a way to
> have it started automatically. The set daemon 900 option does exactly this,
> only from .fetchmailrc. Running fetchmail from the command line without any
> flags executes the options specified in .fetchmailrc.
>
> Why am I doing all this? Because after a reboot or shutdown now I always
> forget to run fetchmail and realize it only when I see that no new mail has
> arrived for 2 days. My fault I believe :)
crontab(1) and crontab(5)
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