The Friday 2004-03-19 at 18:58 -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
When I see someone (or some how-to page) say: Put this entry into your startup script (usually something to run as a daemon), which of what look like a bazillion scripts should I use? I'm interested in running spamd and fetchmail, but I'm puzzled as to where to put those entries...
Nowhere. You only have to enable service "rcspamd", meaning executing "chkconfig spamd on". That's all. Or, fire up yast, runlevel properties somewhere. As for fetchmail, it is called from inside ip-up, which calls poll.tcpip. ip-up (in /etc/ppp) is called from the pppd daemon as soon as the network connection goes up (dial up). If you wan't to set it as an independent service, read "man init.d", and the corresponding suse manual chapter of the configuration book (paper or virtual, you choose). Use /etc/init.d/skeleton for a starting point. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson