Mark,
I don't have an /etc/ip-up.local. Did you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up? I'm not
running ppp on this machine,I use a gateway firewall on another machine
with demand dialing to access the internet.I hope to run the server
headless and use webmin to administer it.The reason I want to start
fetchmail without logging in is to make it simple to restart after a
power outage.I do have dialin access to the server and the only time ppp
is run is when someone dials in.I don't understand why fetchmail won't
start from rc.local,unless something in the configuration requires
logging in before it will start,since I can start it by clicking on
rc.local after logging in.Fetchmail isn't listed in my startup
services.All other services are started without logging in.
Thanks,
Dan
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> Have you thought about adding the command to launch fetchmail to
> /etc/ip-up.local? I was just sitting here reading your post and I thought
> of that. That is where the command to start my firewall is, and the
> firewall starts each and every time a connection is made to the internet.
> So, when ip-up.local is executed the firewall is started. I don't see why
> that method wouldn't work for your application.
>
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> Mark
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