[Spambayes] Spambayes does not start automatically anymore - Kubuntu Feisty

[Joseph Dal Molin]

Thanks Skip that will work... I also found the following script on the 
Spambayes site which sounds very good as it is tied to starting and 
stopping my mail client... will let the list know if it works:

"This script launches SpamBayes then Thunderbird. Once Thunderbird 
quits, SpamBayes is shut down."

#!/bin/bash

# SpamBayes database and configuration files are stored at $SB_HOME
SB_HOME=~/spambayes

[ ! -d $SB_HOME ] && mkdir $SB_HOME
cd $SB_HOME
# Launch the proxy in background
sb_server.py &
# Launch the email client
mozilla-thunderbird
# Shutdown the server (taken from sb_server.py)
python - <<-EOS
from urllib import urlopen, urlencode
urlopen('http://localhost:8880/save',
         urlencode({'how': 'Save & shutdown'})).read()
EOS


skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Joseph> Nothing showed up in the logs.... should there be a script in
>     Joseph> /etc/init.d/ ?
> 
>     Skip> Normally, I would say "yes" though I have no idea how Adept works
>     Skip> its magic.  Is it just a simple front-end tool that builds the
>     Skip> necessary symlinks in /etc/rc?.d for you?  Are there any?
> 
> Ah, it's the Ubuntu package manager.  A little googling shows that the
> SpamBayes package doesn't include any /etc/init.d start files:
> 
>     http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=spambayes&version=feisty&arch=all
> 
> If you want sb_server.py to start when the machine is booted, why not just
> add an @reboot line to your crontab?
> 
> Skip
> .
>