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3) Is there any facility to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time in 8.0?

yes, just like it was a possibility since at least 6.0.

I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about not knowing how to do it, since clearly at least one other person doesn't know either. :) How's it done? I start two processes (one for each of two users) from boot.local... -- 12:31pm up 19 days, 21:59, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.01

Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Derek Fountain; on 25 Mar, 2002 wrote:

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3) Is there any facility to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time in 8.0?

yes, just like it was a possibility since at least 6.0.

I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about not knowing how to do it, since clearly at least one other person doesn't know either. :) How's it done? I start two processes (one for each of two users) from boot.local...

I send a reply on the same topic on March 13 th with the full file which is actually under /usr/share/doc/packages/fetchmail/README.SuSE

HTH

-- Togan Muftuoglu

Excellent. Great news on both counts. Thanks everyone for your quick responses.