Fetchmail dying

AscendantMage · n00b Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 35 Location: Oslo, Norway

Heya, all.

My mail setup uses fetchmail running as a daemon to get mail from my ISP, However, I have a problem with the Daemon "dying". I'd like to set up a cron-job or something, restarting the daemon, let's say every 30 minutes or so - but my knowledge of cron is flaky at best....

Anyone wanna help me out ?

At least this is a temporary solution until I've tracked down the reasons for the fetchmail troubles...

Thanks in advance...
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braindead0 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject:

I usually setup fetchmail as a regular cron job (every 15 minutes or so) instead of deamonizing.

avenj · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 12:13 am Post subject:

Something like this ought to work, at least in vcron:

0,30 * * * * fetchmail -f /path/to/fetchmailrc > /dev/null 2>&1

If you think fetchmail is broken, please file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org (I'm the fetchmail maintainer).

Daemonization of fetchmail works fine for me.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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