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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:47:40 -0500
From:      Louis LeBlanc <freebsd@keyslapper.org>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   startup daemon as unpriviliged user
Message-ID:  <20040214004739.GD650@keyslapper.org>

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Hey everyone.  Here's a general question for you.

I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system that runs fetchmail for me as an
unprivileged everyday userid.  The problem is that the machine isn't
on the most reliable powergrid one could hope for.

So when the system comes back up after going down, I ALWAYS forget
that I have to get fetchmail restarted.  If I forget for too long,
there's so much mail it blows the server that receives the mail into
oblivion (also FreeBSD 4.8, running Sendmail, Cyrus Imapd, and the
main culprit, Spamassassin - spamd).  This is so bad that I often have
to reboot the receiving system.

So, how can I get a process to run automatically on startup for an
unprivileged user?

Thanks.
Lou
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Louis LeBlanc               leblanc@keyslapper.org
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