Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail via systemd won't become a daemon

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 29.05.22 um 19:44 schrieb Mauro Folcarelli:
> I configured fetchmail to run at startup, via systemd.
>
> It runs, without errors, but it exits as a "one time running" and not
> like a daemon.


Mauro,


fetchmail daemonizes itself including forking into the background and
letting go of the controlling terminal.

The proper approach would be to remove the --daemon and start fetchmail
via a systemd timer instead, or via cron.


If you want to configure fetchmail as a service, you may get away with
adding the --nodetach command line flag to the unit file's ExecStart.

HTH.


Matthias