configuring fetchmail to run as a daemon

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

I'm trying to get fetchmail to run as a daemon from boot, and so far I have gotten it where it seems to opperate alright as user without any command line options, but I'm having a little trouble figuring the best way to have it run at boot.

I was looking through the shadow file, and ran across a user named "nobody" and one named "guest", neither of which I can think of the reason for their being there (I'm checking to see if they are listed in the default shadow file, just in case), but I'm wondering if there would be a way to write an initscript to run all of this sudo $LOW_LEVEL_USER fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc, or what kind of problems I may have doing such.

I also would like some info on making sure the config will work as expected.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:12 am Post subject:

Is there some reason why it wont work if run from the system crontab?

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

I was wanting to try to run it as a daemon. I was thinking of asking what the diffrence between the two would be, but after a little looking into the fetchmail docs, doing it that way should be slightly faster (only reads the config once), plus I've done it via crontab before, and just want to try doing it in daemon mode.
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