user specific startup

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 03.09.2004 schrieb Steven Stern um 1:16:

> I want to run fetchmail under my user account at startup.  What's the best way
> to launch it?
> 
> I tried using cron with "fetchmail -d 600", but that generates errors for all
> subsequent invocations.

The daemon mode is wrong in a crontab.

> Where can I put init entries for specific, non-root accounts?

>   Steve 

If you prefer the fetchmail daemon mode then write an init script which
is started in your normal runlevel. An example script you can find in

/usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.55.1/sysvinitfiles

I run fetchmail myself through a cronjob in the users crontab:

*/5 * * * * if [ "`ps --User myname | grep fetchmail`" == "" ]; then
/usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1; fi

Alexander


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