On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:47:17 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2004 08:06, Rainer Bendig wrote: > > Harding, Devon wrote on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 07:59:21AM -0400: > > > The 'Check Server' Command exists in WebMin. What would be the syntax > > > for cron job? > > > > e.g. "fetchmail -d 60" > > for polling every 60 Seconds > > Just for clarity, this is not the 'syntax for cronjob'. That command would run > fetchmail as a daemon, and fetchmail would automatically poll from server(s) > every 60 seconds. > > You either do that, or use fetchmail in a cron job. If using fetchmail as > cronjob, you don't want to have the "-d" option, otherwise you'll end up with > a bunch of fetchmail daemons (hmm.. dunno if that's possible or not though). It's not possible, fortunately. Fetchmail protects itself from that and recognizes if it's running already. But running a cron job which starts "fetchmail -d INTERVAL &> /dev/null" periodically is a great thing for several reasons. First of all, after a reboot, this would restart your fetchmail daemon after some time. Secondly, the fetchmail daemon can deactivate itself and send you a warning if it encounters permanent delivery problems. Compared with running plain fetchmail from a cron job, you would not get that warning and not any error output either (because of output redirection to /dev/null as most people would do). -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
