Dan,
What you first have to do is make sure that fetchmail is checked to start
automatically in Drakeconf->Startup Services. When you've done that restart
your system.
Then is you wish to run fetchmail from a terminal window you can issue this
command;
fetchmail -u username mail.yourhost.com
If you wish to run fetchmail as a daemon issue the command this way:
fetchmail -d 150 -u username mail.yourhost.com
If you wish to setup fetchmail once and for all then on the command line
issue this command:
fetchmailconf
This will open a fetchmail configuration utility that will allow you to
create a .fetchmailrc file that will be read and executed when ever you start
your machine and connect to the internet, and/or open a terminal window and
issue just a plain fetchmail command to either awaken or initiate the
fetchmail process.
Mark
On Saturday 23 December 2000 21:17, 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
