I have run fetchmail as a cron process because it doesn't take up
(virtual/swap) memory between polling intervals and I don't need to
worry about restarting it if it dies.
Jeffrey
Quoting Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka
Why run fetchmail from cron? Isn't it enough to start it as daemon and specify poll interval?
I do it system-wide with the following command:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300 -a -L /var/log/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc
Fetchmail runs as daemon and every 300 seconds poll POP accounts at ISP.
-Kastus
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:35:07PM -0500, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
You can reduce the output to a single line with the --silent option on the fetchmail invocation.
HTH, Jeffrey
Quoting Morsal Roudbay
: this is an example msg I get from cron
there must be a way to stop cron from sending notification msgs every time the job is ran
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