Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmail

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> So, something like .....  ??
> 
> 59 *  * * *   root /usr/bin/fetchmail -d0
> 
> I'm probably wrong which is why I've sent this in.
> 

Yep. It's "minutes", "hours", "day of month", "month", "day of week", "user",
"command". So what you've got there will run fetchmail -d0 as root on the
59th minute of every hour, every day.

Alternatively crontab -e and modify root's crontab rather than the system-
wide crontab. The syntax is identical except the username is omitted as all
commands in user crontabs run as the user of that crontab :)

Chris...

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