Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Apr 27, 2002, Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:28:12 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" > wrote: > > > 3/15 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > ^^^ > > ...which should restart fetchmail every fifteen minutes. > > Should it? man 5 cro

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > > > I've changed the inovcation to read: > > > > > > 3,18,33,48 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > > > > > > Ch

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-27 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Brian Nelson quotation: > > ...as it shouldn't. It should say "fetchmail already running" and not > do anything else if fetchmail is running. If he wanted it to restart > every time, he should change the "start" to "restart" (but it that > case it wouldn't make sense to run fetchmail as a

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:28:12 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > 3/15 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null ^^^ > ...which should restart fetchmail every fifteen minutes. Should it? man 5 crontab says: Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Fol-

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) [020426 00:28]: > I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. > > Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with > that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: > > > 3/15 * * * * root

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > I've changed the inovcation to read: > > > > 3,18,33,48 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > > > > Checking just now, the daemon's still running. > > Change that /dev/null to /tmp/

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > I've changed the inovcation to read: > > 3,18,33,48 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > > Checking just now, the daemon's still running. Change that /dev/null to /tmp/wtfisupwithfetchmail for a while, and see what your script is

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread christophe barbé
I have the same problem. My system-wide fetchmail dies sometimes without any warning, without any apparent reason. I have not yet looked at other init.d scripts like gdm, but would it be possible (logical) to spawn fetchmail (I mean if it die, relaunch it automatically). Christophe On Fri, Apr 2

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread ben
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:28 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. > > Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with > that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: > > > 3/15 * * * * root /e

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:28:12AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm running a daemonized fetchmail at work, ~1000 messages daily. > > Periodically the daemon dies. No good reason. OK, I can deal with > that. Create an /etc/cron.d/fetchmail file with the following: > Hmm, I too have this pr