Subject: [alpine-devel] Fetchmail ACF

From: Ted Trask <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:04:45 -0700 (PDT)

I'm working on the ACF for fetchmail.  I'm looking for opinions (or a consensus) on how to run fetchmail.  Should it be run as a cron job (in which case, we'll have to decide how to manage cron) or as a daemon (in which case we'll have to create an init.d script)?  Ideas?  Thanks.

Ted

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From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:18:11 +0200

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 06:04 -0700, Ted Trask wrote:
> I'm working on the ACF for fetchmail. 

cool!

> I'm looking for opinions (or a consensus) on how to run fetchmail.
> Should it be run as a cron job (in which case, we'll have to decide
> how to manage cron) or as a daemon (in which case we'll have to create
> an init.d script)?  Ideas?  Thanks.

Looking closer, its a bug really, since there should really be an init.d
script. good catch.

I suggest we use the init.d script since its easier to handle this
service like other services. (think enable/disable, is it running? etc) 

It will be included in the upcomming alpine-1.7.21 beta1 release.

Thanks!

-nc

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