Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail unter centos 7 (systemd)

[Peter P. <ro...@ri...>]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:04:35AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:32 PM, J. Echter
> <j.e...@ec...> wrote:
> > i'd like to run fetchmail in daemonmode on centos 7.
> >
> > whats the best way to do this?
> 
> There and entire section in the fetchmail man page
> dedicated to 'DAEMON MODE'. And an sh(1) page.
> Once you get any unix job detached from the terminal,
> whatever tools you use to manage it is up to you.
> Since you're trying to use centos tools, you probably
> want to consult the centos forums.

The sweetest part is that with systemd you don't even need to
detach fetchmail; systemd is quite good at supervising foreground
processes, so something that runs "fetchmail -vNd120" or similar
should be good enough, say, in a .service file with Type=simple.

G'luck,
Peter

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