From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 10:11:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F6C937B428 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16939 invoked by uid 0); 7 Mar 2002 18:11:10 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ant) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp016-rz3) with SMTP; 7 Mar 2002 18:11:10 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g27IB9e94741; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:11:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:11:09 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Burhan Nazir Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting daemon only for user; gotta be simple? Message-ID: <20020307191109.B94491@Deadcell.ant> Mail-Followup-To: Burhan Nazir , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020307181919.A94491@Deadcell.ant> <20020307173719.GH54208@swansea.cableinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020307173719.GH54208@swansea.cableinet.net>; from burhan@blueyonder.co.uk on Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:37:19PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:37:19PM +0000, Burhan Nazir wrote: > Oh dear, that sounds like way too much work. Try this instead: > > fetchmail -d 60 > > This will run fetchmail in deamon mode and will poll your servers (defined in > .fetchmailrc) every 60 seconds. > Thanks for your reply; I do know about that, but I am looking for a way to have it started automatically. The set daemon 900 option does exactly this, only from .fetchmailrc. Running fetchmail from the command line without any flags executes the options specified in .fetchmailrc. Why am I doing all this? Because after a reboot or shutdown now I always forget to run fetchmail and realize it only when I see that no new mail has arrived for 2 days. My fault I believe :) regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message