user specific startup

[Steven Stern]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:28:12 +0200, Alexander Dalloz
<alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:


>
>I run fetchmail myself through a cronjob in the users crontab:
>
>*/5 * * * * if [ "`ps --User myname | grep fetchmail`" == "" ]; then
>/usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1; fi


I had been running fetchmail like that from cron, but I saw a bunch of traffic
here about using the -d switch.  It seems much easier to run it through cron
and I'm going to change it back to that.

-- 
  Steve