Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup
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On 03/22/07 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 11:38 +0800, Jian Jun Wang wrote:
>> I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail
>> to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I
>> did
>> 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root
>> 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon
>> 3. edit $HOME/.fetchmailrc
>>
>> defaults
>> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>>
>> set logfile "/home/jerry/.log/fetchmail.log"
>
> Sorry, but running fetchmail as a daemon is the worst possible way to
> run fetchmail.
>
> Run it as a cronjob as a job as your user. It will work. You just need
> to setup your .fetchmailrc properly.
>
> ANYTIME I've run fetchmail as a system daemon it dies sooner or later.
> Usually sooner. Or even better yet it stalls. never more to retrieve
> mail.
>
> I've always setup fetchmail to run as a cronjob every 10-30 minutes
> depending on you tastes. Any more often than 10 minutes runs the risk of
> colliding with another previous instance.
That's how I do it, but every 5 minutes, and have seen no problems.
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