fetchmail - daemon intervals

A

Andreas Paasch

I am used to run fetchmail as follows:

fetchmail -d 60

which will poll my emails from around every minute ...

Now that used to work fine.

Then I figured that I wanted fetchmail to start automatically upon some
reboot, and added it.

Now I do have:

[andreas@domain andreas]$ ps aux | grep fetchmail
root 2051 0.0 0.1 3320 944 ? S 00:19 0:00 fetchmail -d
180 -f /etc/fetchmailrc
andreas 5357 0.0 0.2 3560 1372 ? S 02:30 0:00 fetchmail -d
60
andreas 10948 0.0 0.1 1828 624 pts/4 S 13:39 0:00 grep
fetchmail

which is weird for the root process polling every 180 seconds
as:

/etc/fetchmailrc has this one:

"
set daemon 60

poll [IP] with proto APOP interval 60"

So it should run every 60 seconds, according to my wishes.

I have no idea where the 180 seconds come from ... any hint would be nice as
the settings tell me it should state 60.

/Andreas
 
A

Andreas Paasch

Andreas Paasch wrote:


Sorry !

system screwed up, hit the wrong NG.

/Andreas

I am used to run fetchmail as follows:

fetchmail -d 60

which will poll my emails from around every minute ...

Now that used to work fine.

Then I figured that I wanted fetchmail to start automatically upon some
reboot, and added it.

Now I do have:

[andreas@domain andreas]$ ps aux | grep fetchmail
root 2051 0.0 0.1 3320 944 ? S 00:19 0:00 fetchmail
-d
180 -f
/etc/fetchmailrc
andreas 5357 0.0 0.2 3560 1372 ? S 02:30 0:00 fetchmail
-d
60
andreas 10948 0.0 0.1 1828 624 pts/4 S 13:39 0:00 grep
fetchmail

which is weird for the root process polling every 180 seconds
as:

/etc/fetchmailrc has this one:

"
set daemon 60

poll [IP] with proto APOP interval 60"

So it should run every 60 seconds, according to my wishes.

I have no idea where the 180 seconds come from ... any hint would be nice
as the settings tell me it should state 60.

/Andreas
 

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