One way is to run fetchmail as a daemon. Put this in your ~/.bash_profile
fetchmail -d 300
This will run fetchmail when you're logged in, polling your mail host every
300 seconds.
Be sure to put this in your ~/.bash_logout
fetchmail -q
On Saturday 23 December 2000 13:17, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Can someone tell me how to start fetchmail when booting? I added the
> line "/usr/bin/fetchmail" to rc.local,but that didn't work.I can click
> on rc.local after booting and it starts then.Any suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated.I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1
>
> Dan
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TENZO Design
