[fetchmail]daemon prob fedora core 3

[Matthias Andree]

Andy <h.iawatha@ekit.com> writes:

> I'm trying to run fetchmail as a daemon on fedora core 3.
>
> I tried 
>
> 6.2.5
> 6.2.0-6
>
> built with the usual vanilla configure;make;make install
>
> but can get no joy.  The only way I can get
> it to work is by using crontab with a script
> that kills any existing daemon then runs one
> with "-d 0" (which sometimes terminates and
> sometimes doesn't - hence the kill).

-d 0 means "daemon mode off". Use a decent setting, such as -d 900,
when starting fetchmail.

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Matthias Andree