Problem with fetchmail 6.2.3+NLS on a Mandrake 9.1

I have tried getting my computer to start the fetchmail as a daemon
automatically when I boot, but it doesn't work.

The file /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S91fetchmail(which is a link to /etc/init.d
/fetchmail) says:

<blahblahblah>
fetchmail -d 180 -f /etc/fetchmailrc
</blahblahblah>

But /etc/fetchmailrc is empty, with naught but a comment.
I have tried replacing this file with ~/.fetchmailrc,
but it won't work.

I have also tried replacing S91fetchmail with a file containing
this text:

su eirik(my username) -c 'fetchmail -d 5'

Wouldn't this start fetchmail daemon-like as my user?