Re: [Sheflug] Fetchmail

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 01:44:26PM +0100, Chris J wrote:
> 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.

Why not just run fetchmail in daemon mode, and forget the crontab? E.g.,
fetchmail -d60 ? At least under Debian, there is a /etc/init.d/fetchmail 
(unless mine is one I wrote ;o)

Cheers,

Alex.

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