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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:56:18 +1000
From:      andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crontab @reboot directive
Message-ID:  <20080422205618.GA76601@ozzmosis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080422163456.285ad902@scorpio>
References:  <36b22dcf9403783aa82cb84ac8a886aa@localhost> <20080422111826.GA26749@ozzmosis.com> <20080422163456.285ad902@scorpio>

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On Tue 2008-04-22 16:34:56 UTC-0400, Gerard (gerard@seibercom.net) wrote:

> > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120
> 
> Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than
> starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file?

Since I have root access on that machine, yes I could do that.  But
for my particular setup I couldn't see any advantage.  Plus, the less
I need to edit system-wide config files, the better, I think.



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