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equilian
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 Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 3:28 pm Post subject: Fetchmail and Dcron |
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Alright i've been trying to get fetchmail to run every other minute by adding the following line to my crontab file.
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1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59
* * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s > /dev/null 2&1
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However, this isn't working. Could someone tell me what's going wrong here? And yes I am apart of the cron group.
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arkane
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| Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe put " " around the full command? |
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equilian
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:11 am Post subject: |
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I tried that too. No Avail.
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 2:48 am Post subject: |
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Is it a user crontab or /etc/crontab? If it is /etc/crontab, it needs to have an additional field after the last '*' to indicate which user it needs to run as. Also, I assume that the line break is in the post and not in the real file? Did you add dcron to your default runlevel and start it? Lastly, I believe dcron needs a poke to re-read the crontab.
PS. you can use */2 in the first field to execute every two minutes rather than the verbose format. |
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equilian
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 6:22 am Post subject: |
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So I changed my crontab file to read the following.
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MAILTO=""
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -s
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Now fetchmail runs when it should, however dcron is now email me the results of it's operations. Is there anyway to make this stop?
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equilian
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 6:29 am Post subject: |
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Hahah success is mine.
This code actually works as I want it to.
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#*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -s >> /dev/null 2>&1
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Sweet Sweet Success.
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