Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:09:00 -0400
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 20:45 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:32:55 -0400
> > Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:26 +0100, 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. On most peoples' systems there's only a fistful of anyway.
> > >
> > > You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set to run every
> > > 10-30 minutes. Much better use of resources on the machine.
> > >
> > > As I have said before, fetchmail WILL die or hang on you, when run in
> > > daemon mode.
> >
> > monit [0] ?
> >
>
> All that is telling you that it DID do it oopsie. I want something that
> just plain works. Using a cron driven fetchmail works, daemon mode
> suxxorz.
I agree that something that actually works is better; I just mean that
monit could restart fetchmail for you if it dies.
>
> Not to be glib here, but look who writes fetchmail... the self
> proscribed bestestest programmer in the world. This is the best example
> of a program he writes to preach to the whole world?
Hey, I'm aware of this issue; look at the long excerpt from the getmail
FAQ I quoted elsewhere in this thread. That's why I use getmail.
[Although to be fair, I don't know enough to judge whether that
indictment of fetchmail is fair; I haven't seen Eric Raymond's
response / rebuttal.]
> I can do as good, with shell. I have in some instances.
I can't, but with some more work on my mad perl skillz, maybe I'll also
soon be able to.
Celejar
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