Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:26:59 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: How to stop fetchmail(1) Message-ID: <19990907012659.A280@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <199909062324.AAA29092@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:24:29AM %2B0100 References: <19990906193606.D281@marder-1> <199909062324.AAA29092@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:24:29AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > 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,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sounds like too much Guinness to me Brian:)
> 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.
>
OK. I have it set up to start (``fetchmail -d 30'') in ppp.linkup
and ``shell fetchmail --quit'' in ppp.linkdown. From what you are
saying I may as well just start the daemon in /etc/rc.conf and not
bother stopping it when closing ppp, would you agree?
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