Re: [LUG] Debian and starting programs at login

[Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:53:10PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > start up fetchmail and a couple of other things, this is a bit of a pain.
> Couldn't that be a cron job?

Polling fetchmail from your login manager does sound like a bad idea.

Install anacron if your machine gets switched off at nights.

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