fetchmail: daemon or cron job?

hi.

Quick question: What's better: running fetchmail in daemon mode or setting
up a cron job?

either way, set to run every 5 minutes.

Specifics: RH9 box, ~20 users. fetchmail (pop3), imap, etc.

I'm guessing cron job?

thx,
john

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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 03:33:23 GMT, Nick E. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> hi.
>
> Quick question: What's better: running fetchmail in daemon mode or setting
> up a cron job?
>
> either way, set to run every 5 minutes.
>
> Specifics: RH9 box, ~20 users. fetchmail (pop3), imap, etc.
>
> I'm guessing cron job?
>
> thx,
> john
>

That's how I do it. Run a script called by a crontab that does other stuff
and runs fetchmail every N minutes.

AC

In article <R3kUb.12409$(E-Mail Removed) k.net>,
Alan Connor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 03:33:23 GMT, Nick E. <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > Quick question: What's better: running fetchmail in daemon mode or setting
> > up a cron job?
> >
> > either way, set to run every 5 minutes.
> >
> > Specifics: RH9 box, ~20 users. fetchmail (pop3), imap, etc.
> >
> > I'm guessing cron job?
>
> That's how I do it. Run a script called by a crontab that does other stuff
> and runs fetchmail every N minutes.

Me too. I also have mine check for a file (created by xautolock when it
kicks off the screen saver), and doesn't fetch mail if it finds it.

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Hactar wrote:

>> That's how I do it. Run a script called by a crontab that does other
>> stuff and runs fetchmail every N minutes.
>
> Me too. I also have mine check for a file (created by xautolock when it
> kicks off the screen saver), and doesn't fetch mail if it finds it.

ah. that's a good idea actually.

thanks.

-john


--
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.
--Linus Torvalds