Fetchamil deamon problem

Garbz · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:37 am Post subject: Fetchamil deamon problem

Hi all
not sure if it goes here but it concerns email so it's technically network.

I use fetchmail to fetchmail from 3 differnt servers and deliver it to my local account so i can get it from my server via imap.

THe problem is this: I got a rather fancy /root/.fetchmailrc file. Generally fetchamil is then started like so:
fetchmail -d 600 --smtpname garbz@localhost -a

The problem is that atm i need to log in every time the server goes down and specifically run this command. If i put it in /etc/conf.d/local.start then i get errors such as no server specified etc. because it's not run as root and it doesn't read /root/.fetchmailrc

Are there any other places i can put this so it does get read. Or another way to launch fetchmail as root
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thompsonmike · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:09 am Post subject:

Try

/etc/init.d/fetchmail start

To have it run at boot

rc-update add fetchmail default

If you need to modify the start just change the fetchmail script in /etc/init.d
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Michael..

Garbz · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:22 am Post subject:

ok thanks for stating the obvious i completely missed that.

I merged my config from my redhat box and redhat didn't have a fetchmail script at boottime.

the -f option is exactly what i was looking for thanks!
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