From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 6 17:26:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-32.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CA815A35 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA07991; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:25:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29092; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:24:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909062324.AAA29092@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:36:30 BST." <19990906193606.D281@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:24:29 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The manpage shows ``fetchmail --quit'' as the way to kill the > fetchmail daemon but it doesn't state *how* it kills it. Does it > just kill the daemon unconditionally or, and I suspect this is the > case, if fetchmail is currently getting mail does it wait until > the daemon goes back to the idle state before killing it? Fetchmail seems to be very reliable in background mode. With my arms closed and my eyes tied behind my head, I'd guess that it finishes downloading the current message and exits cleanly..... or in the worst case, it just drops the half-downloaded data on the floor knowing that it'll stay on the server anyway. I often remove the transport from under fetchmail and haven't seen any suspicious duplicates (or ``holes'') yet. > -- > STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. > OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message