fetchmail sceduling

fetchmail sceduling

[Sarvesh Singhal]

Hi,

We shut down the systems in the evening and so next day I have to again run
fetchmail to run in daemon mode. I tried using cron so that next day it
starts. but it does not works rather I have to manually run the fetchmail
command to start trhe fetchmail in daemon mode

Please help!!


SS

Re: fetchmail sceduling

[César Soler]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:24:16PM +0530, Sarvesh Singhal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We shut down the systems in the evening and so next day I have to again run
> fetchmail to run in daemon mode. I tried using cron so that next day it
> starts. but it does not works rather I have to manually run the fetchmail
> command to start trhe fetchmail in daemon mode

Hi,

I added the following task in my crontab:

*/15 * * * * if ! `pgrep fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1`; then fetchmail
--nokeep --daemon 900; fi >/dev/null 2>&1

hope this help you...

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Re: fetchmail sceduling

[Sven Pfeifer]

Hi,

Sarvesh Singhal <ssinghal@abhikalak.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We shut down the systems in the evening and so next day I have to again run
> fetchmail to run in daemon mode. I tried using cron so that next day it
> starts. but it does not works rather I have to manually run the fetchmail
> command to start trhe fetchmail in daemon mode

why don´t you start the fetchmail-daemon when entering the correct
runlevel? e. g. a script called fetchmaild in /etc/rc.d/init.d/
containing something like:

---8<--
  #!/bin/bash

  ### path to binary ###
  FETCHMAIL_BIN="/usr/bin/fetchmail"

  ### time between two polls in sec ###
  POLLTIME="300"

  ### file whith host, user, password definitions ###
  FETCHMAILRC="/etc/fetchmailrc

  ### starting the daemon with logging to syslog ###
  ${FETCHMAIL_BIN} -d ${POLLTIME} -f ${FETCHMAILRC} --syslog
-->8---

> Please help!!

HTH

> SS

Cheers

	Sven

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Re: fetchmail sceduling

[John Julian]

my /etc/rc.d/init.d/fetchmail script looks like:
----------------
# fetchmail daemon to suck mail from remote hosts

case "$1" in
  start ) /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc;;
  stop ) /usr/bin/fetchmail --quit;;
  restart )
      /usr/bin/fetchmail --quit
      /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc;;
  * ) echo "options start, stop, restart";;
esac
-----------------

I've got it linked to rc3.d/S99fetchmail and rc5.d/S99fetchmail


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Sven Pfeifer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Sarvesh Singhal <ssinghal@abhikalak.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We shut down the systems in the evening and so next day I have to again run
> > fetchmail to run in daemon mode. I tried using cron so that next day it
> > starts. but it does not works rather I have to manually run the fetchmail
> > command to start trhe fetchmail in daemon mode
> 
> why don´t you start the fetchmail-daemon when entering the correct
> runlevel? e. g. a script called fetchmaild in /etc/rc.d/init.d/
> containing something like:
> 
> ---8<--
>   #!/bin/bash
> 
>   ### path to binary ###
>   FETCHMAIL_BIN="/usr/bin/fetchmail"
> 
>   ### time between two polls in sec ###
>   POLLTIME="300"
> 
>   ### file whith host, user, password definitions ###
>   FETCHMAILRC="/etc/fetchmailrc
> 
>   ### starting the daemon with logging to syslog ###
>   ${FETCHMAIL_BIN} -d ${POLLTIME} -f ${FETCHMAILRC} --syslog
> -->8---
> 
> > Please help!!
> 
> HTH
> 
> > SS
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 	Sven
> 
> 

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