[Fetchmail-users] The saga of wrestling with systemd (was) Re: logrotate options?

[Joe Acquisto-j. <jo...@j4...>]

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:34:26AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> [snip]
>> directory if necessary). Something like this works for me (note that
>> I do not have a logfile directive in my fetchmail config file, so
>> it will send its output to the standard output stream by default):
>> 
>>   [roam@straylight ~]$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/fetchmail.service 
>>   [Unit]
>>   Description=Run fetchmail in daemon mode.
>>   Documentation=man:fetchmail(1)
>>   After=network-online.target
>>   Wants=network-online.target
>>   
>>   [Service]
>>   Type=simple
>>   ExecStartPre=-fetchmail -ve200
>>   ExecStart=fetchmail -ve25 -Nd120
>>   ExecStop=fetchmail --quit
>>   KillMode=process
> 
> ...and of course, I forgot two lines that are kind of important:
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=default.target
> 
> G'luck,
> Peter
> 
> -- 

Thanks to all.

This is how I achieved success (getting Fetchmail to start and stop in systemd world that is):

-------------------------------------
[Unit]
Description=remote-mail retrieval utility runin daaemon mode
After=network.target
Wants=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
EnvironmentFile=/root/.fetchmailrc
#User=fetchmail
#ExecStart=/usr/lib/fetchmail-systemd-exec
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v
#-Nd120
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -q
KillMode=process
#RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
---------------------------------------------

Thanks again to all.

joe a