From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 17:38:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand.global.net.uk (sand.global.net.uk [195.147.248.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B9514C9D for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pe0s08a07.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.232.225] helo=marder-1.) by sand.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11O9Dr-0003Kp-00; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:34:55 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id BAA00504; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:26:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:26:59 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Brian Somers Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) Message-ID: <19990907012659.A280@marder-1> References: <19990906193606.D281@marder-1> <199909062324.AAA29092@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199909062324.AAA29092@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:24:29AM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:24:29AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > 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, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds like too much Guinness to me Brian:) > 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. > OK. I have it set up to start (``fetchmail -d 30'') in ppp.linkup and ``shell fetchmail --quit'' in ppp.linkdown. From what you are saying I may as well just start the daemon in /etc/rc.conf and not bother stopping it when closing ppp, would you agree? > > -- > > 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 > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! > > -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message