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Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup



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On 03/22/07 17:26, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Ron Johnson:
>> On 03/22/07 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>> If your /etc/fetchmailrc is empty anyway, you can edit
>>> /etc/default/fetchmail to disable the system-wide fetchmail daemon
>>> altogether. This solution has the advantage, that every user can manage
>>> his/her own POP accounts (without the admin knowing their passwords),
>>> but the disadvantage is that you have a fetchmail process for every
>>> user.
>> Are you talking about having a fetchmail daemon for *each* user?
> 
> Yes.

That's... odd. (Not wrong, just odd.)

>       On most peoples' systems there's only a fistful of anyway.

Not knowing that other people also run fetchmail from cron, I also
configured fetchmail it to run from cron for each of 3 users on my
system.  Why created multiple daemons for activity that's going to
run every X number of minutes, when cron is already specialized for
that purpose?

> 
> J.

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