user specific startup

[Richard E Miles]

> I want to run fetchmail under my user account at startup.  What's the best way
> to launch it?
> 
> I tried using cron with "fetchmail -d 600", but that generates errors for all
> subsequent invocations.
> 
> Where can I put init entries for specific, non-root accounts?

The fetchmail rons as a daemon and should only be run once. From man:
 Only  one  daemon process is permitted per user; in daemon mode, fetch-
       mail makes a per-user lockfile to guarantee this.


You could make it part of your gnome startup programs.
preference/sessions/startup programs.
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097