Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:24:29 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) Message-ID: <199909062324.AAA29092@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:36:30 BST." <19990906193606.D281@marder-1>
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> The manpage shows ``fetchmail --quit'' as the way to kill the > fetchmail daemon but it doesn't state *how* it kills it. Does it > just kill the daemon unconditionally or, and I suspect this is the > case, if fetchmail is currently getting mail does it wait until > the daemon goes back to the idle state before killing it? Fetchmail seems to be very reliable in background mode. With my arms closed and my eyes tied behind my head, I'd guess that it finishes downloading the current message and exits cleanly..... or in the worst case, it just drops the half-downloaded data on the floor knowing that it'll stay on the server anyway. I often remove the transport from under fetchmail and haven't seen any suspicious duplicates (or ``holes'') yet. > -- > STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. > OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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