Fetchmail Polling Interval?

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Monday 26 July 2004 08:06, Rainer Bendig wrote:
> Harding, Devon wrote on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 07:59:21AM -0400:
> > The 'Check Server' Command exists in WebMin.  What would be the syntax
> > for cron job?
>
> e.g. "fetchmail -d 60"
> for polling every 60 Seconds

Just for clarity, this is not the 'syntax for cronjob'. That command would run 
fetchmail as a daemon, and fetchmail would automatically poll from server(s) 
every 60 seconds.

You either do that, or use fetchmail in a cron job. If using fetchmail as 
cronjob, you don't want to have the "-d" option, otherwise you'll end up with 
a bunch of fetchmail daemons (hmm.. dunno if that's possible or not though).

For setting up cronjob, look at 'man cron' and the related man (ie. "man 5 
crontab",  "man 1 crontab"

RDB