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

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

Am 31.05.22 um 19:17 schrieb Mauro Folcarelli:
>
> Thank you Matthias.
>
> I removed the "--daemon" from the command line and replaced it with
> --nodetach
>
> The result is the same:
>
> mag 31 19:09:18 mfhost fetchmail[4255]: fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> mag 31 19:09:18 mfhost fetchmail[4255]: fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out.
> mag 31 19:09:18 mfhost fetchmail[4255]: fetchmail: 6.4.30
> interrogazione di pop.tiscali.it (protocollo POP3) su mar 31 mag 2022,
> 19:09:18: completata
> mag 31 19:09:18 mfhost fetchmail[4255]: fetchmail: interruzione
> normale, stato 1
> mag 31 19:09:18 mfhost systemd[1327]: fetchmail.service: Main process
> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> ░░ Subject: Uscito processo unità
> ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> ░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> ░░
> ░░ Un processo ExecStart appartenente all'unità UNIT è uscito.
> ░░
> ░░ Il codice di uscita del processo è 'exited' ed è uscito con 1.
> mag 31 19:09:18 mfhost systemd[1327]: fetchmail.service: Failed with
> result 'exit-code'.
> ░░ Subject: Unit fallita
> ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> ░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> ░░
> ░░ Unità UNIT entrata nello stato 'failed' (fallito) con risultato
> 'exit-code'.
>
> Fetchmail worked well, but after having downloaded emails from
> provider's server, it ended.
>
> The --nodetach option didn't produced the result I was expecting:
> fetchmail remaining "running" and downloading emails every X time.
>
> If it's not possible to achieve this, ... ok I will use cron and
> launch fetchmail every X time.
>

it's either: --nodetach --daemon 300

or: using cron/systemd timers and no --daemon option (or --daemon 0).