From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 10:28: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [194.228.200.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF9437B417 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g27IRw109393 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:27:58 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2002030719235862:2622 ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:23:58 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g27IfF685897 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:41:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:41:15 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting daemon only for user; gotta be simple? Message-ID: <20020307184115.GH69695@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020307181919.A94491@Deadcell.ant> <20020307173719.GH54208@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020307191109.B94491@Deadcell.ant> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020307191109.B94491@Deadcell.ant> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/07/2002 07:23:58 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 03/07/2002 07:24:04 PM, Serialize complete at 03/07/2002 07:24:04 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > 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? > > 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 :) crontab(1) and crontab(5) -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 7:39PM up 7 days, 20:47, 7 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.07, 0.01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message