From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 21:56:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-40.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E29B14CB0 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:56:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA09295; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:54:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA64352; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:58:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909070458.FAA64352@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Ovens Cc: Brian Somers , questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:26:59 BST." <19990907012659.A280@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 05:58:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > > 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:) 8*) > > 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? Yep, I believe that'd work fine as long as you set your dial and alive filters to ignore port 110. I actually run fetchmail on my laptop, but only when I'm at work. At home, fetchmail runs on a back end box, so I have the .linkup/ .linkdown setup. I actually use ``killall fetchmail'' in ppp.linkdown because I didn't know about ``fetchmail --quit'' :-P [.....] > -- > 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 ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message