Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail at system startup

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 3/26/07, Joe Acquisto <jo...@j4...> wrote:
>
> Ah.  Well.  Point taken.  This is a SUSE SLES 9 install with their provided
> version of fetchmail.

Which could be any version, but fortunately that isn't important.

> The startup script does show it is looking for /etc/fetchmailrc.  But, it seems I recall clearly
> that I got this running, logged in as root, only after creating .fetchmailrc in root's home.
>
> fetchmailconfig did that, I believe.

Just keep in mind that any vaguely modern version of fetchmail will
warn you about running as root and future versions will refuse to run.

> I supposed that  during system startup the script at /etc/init.d will run (called via /etc/init.d/rc(x).d) while saying "fetchmail" while logged in, does the deed via /usr/sbin/fetchmail.  ?

If I understand you correctly, yes.  I'd suggest you take a look at
the init script yourself to see what it does and how.

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