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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:47:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      William Melanson <wjm@gate.net>
To:        Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fetchmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.03.9909201743060.137836-100000@tiwa.gate.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990920154732.A293@rknebel.uplink.net>

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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.



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