Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 05:58:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) Message-ID: <199909070458.FAA64352@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:26:59 BST." <19990907012659.A280@marder-1>
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[.....] > > 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 <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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