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From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Subject: Re: Starting fetchmail at boot up
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Hello:

	Use /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 60 -f /root/.fetchmailrc

Also, do a

chmod 0600 /root/.fetchmailrc

From the man page,

-f <pathname>, --fetchmailrc <pathname>
Specify a non-default name for the .fetchmailrc run
control file.  The pathname argument must be either
"-" (a single dash, meaning to read the  configura-
tion  from  standard  input) or a filename.  Unless
the --version option is also on, a named file argu-
ment  must  have permissions no more open than 0600
(u=rw,g=,o=) or else be /dev/null.


Marco Radzinschi

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On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:

> How can I get fetchmail to automatically start up at boot time.?
>
> I have  a script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.sh that has
> this command /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 60
>
> After the system is up I can run this script and fetchmail starts.
>
> At boot time I see a console message that says this script is
> being executed, but it results in a message being displayed saying
> 'No mail servers have been specified'.
>
> This sounds like at boot time it can not find the /root/.fetchmailrc file.
>
>
>
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