Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:29:50 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab @reboot directive Message-ID: <20080422212950.GA76914@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <36b22dcf9403783aa82cb84ac8a886aa@localhost> <20080422111826.GA26749@ozzmosis.com> <20080422163456.285ad902@scorpio> <20080422205618.GA76601@ozzmosis.com> <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Tue 2008-04-22 17:03:41 UTC-0400, Robert Huff (roberthuff@rcn.com) 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. > > I'm confused: how is /etc/rc.conf any more a "system-wide > config file" than /etc/crontab? I run fetchmail from the user crontab (edited with "crontab -e"), not /etc/crontab.
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