Re: [Sheflug] Re: Fetchmail

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

> Oh !  After some head scratching I find that this works...
> 
> 00 *  * * *     richard  fetchmail -d0 -f /home/richard/.fetchmailrc >
> /var/log/fetchmail.log 2>&1
> 
> Reason I put root was because I thought that user richard wouldn't
> work inside crontab.
> 

Personally, I'd keep the system-wide crontab for pure maintenance cron
jobs. Things like fetchmail I'd put in the per-user crontabs :) In fact
you'll find a lot of UNIX boxes (and also Dillon-cron) doesn't have a 
system-wide cron, per-user tabs being used for everything. 

However this is just me :) Using the per-user tabs though would mean you
wouldn't have to su or sudo each time you wanted to modify your cron
entries.

Chris...

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