Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [09-09-21 17:13]:
> 
> On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >...
> >When using the line:
> >
> >   @ 5 fetchmail -a
> >
> >nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded
> >with
> >
> >   fetchmail -a
> >
> >from the commandline.
> 
> Here my crontab says:
> 
>   0-59/4 * * * *		/usr/bin/fetchmail  > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> I suggest trying the full path, but you  may also be able to redirect 
> to somewhere other than /dev/null & perhaps see something useful?
> 
> Stroller.
> 

Ha! :)

To not to involve stdout was the hack!

Currently I am running fetchmail via fcron and does what it should
since fetchmail directly reports to /dev/null.

I think I will change the whole suff to run in daemon mode, since I 
think (to be read as: "...not know for sure...") that it is a little
bit more performant. Or?

Thanks for the help! :)
Keep hacking!
mcc

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