Paul M Foster wrote:
> I just set up a centralized mailserver for our network. As configured, a
> fetchmail process runs as a daemon for each user. (Fetchmail run as a
> single, central daemon dumps email into /var/mail/fetchmail, instead of
> the individual spool files.) If I have to restart that system for some
> reason, I'd like a way to restart the individual fetchmail daemons (all
> two of them). But they run under the UID of the individual users who
> issue the fetchmail command. Rather than having to ssh into that server
> as each user and issue a fetchmail command, I'd like a way (preferably a
> script) which will lauch the two fetchmail instances as the individual
> users without my intervention. I know, tall order.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Paul
>
>
If you are running fetchamil in daemon mode then all you need is
/etc/fetchmailrc. Add "poll" for each user.
If a users wants to set up an individual one then they can create their
own file in ~/
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