On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 21:30, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > > Probably meant to say 'fetchmail -d3660' there, nevermind. > > Umm.. stupid question... what does this do ? Does it allow me to > connect for two minutes and then drop the line or what ? Spent all > day looking at the fetchmail docs and can't find info about this. It means "run fetchmail as a daemon, and check for new mail every hour" (an hour being 3660 seconds). > > killall fetchmail, like any other process. > > No, doesn't work. Then you're doing it wrong :p > I seem to remember something like 'grep psaux | > something' to find the running process. Any of: killall fetchmail ps aux | grep fetchmail | cut -b10-14 - | xargs -l1 kill fetchmail -q .. will work, so long as you have permission to kill the process (i.e., if you started it as root, you need to be root to kill it). Cheers, Alex.
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