starting fetch mail when system boots up

[Don Russell]

Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 20:14 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
>   
>> Is there a (standard/best practices) way to start fetchmail 
>> automatically when the system starts? I've googled and seen that it's 
>> easy, just "service fetchmail start", but when I try that as root, I get 
>> an error that says fetchmail is an unrecognized service.
>>     
>
> In my /etc/rc.local I have entries like this, one per user:
>
> su janedoe -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900"
> su johndoe -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 913"
>
> NB:  I picked different poll periods so everything doesn't happen at
> once, all the time.

Tim, that worked great... while I was in /etc/rc.local I added another 
line to send a short e-mail message saying the system restarted and to 
check things out. This way I'll be notified of any unscheduled restarts 
too. (power fail/restore or whatever)