On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:53, Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote: > how do I forward > all of root's mail to my mail? Depends on how you've set up mail on your system (sendmail and procmail, or postfix, etc), but presumably one easy way would be to create /root/.forward containing the line rrigo@xxxxxxxxx > and last thing is.. how do I make fetchmail run as > a daemon? Add fetchmail -d 300 to your ~/.bash_profile (that will fetch your mail every 300 seconds, i,e. every 5 minutes), and fetchmail -q to your ~/.bash_logout Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================