On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 08:44 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Henning Larsen wrote: > > Hello. > > > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:26 +1030, Tim wrote: > > > >> In my rc.local files I have lines like the following (below). And each > >> user has their ~/.fetchmailrc file set for whatever servers their > >> accounts will poll. > >> > >> su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900" > >> su john -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1200" > >> su jane -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 1500" > >> > >> I picked different polling periods so that mail runs will not run at the > >> same time as each other (spreading the workload around). Any user can > >> stop their own automatic poll, and restart it, if they want to. > >> > >> I only roughly picked different time periods, if I really wanted to > >> ensure that they hardly ever ran at the same time, I'd have used prime > >> numbers. But I'm too lazy to bother to work out large prime numbers, > >> and I don't think it's that important for me. It'd be different if you > >> had a large number of users, then it might be quite beneficial. > > > > Thank you Tim, and others. > > > > The .fetchmailrc files is now in users home dirs. They are owned by > > root, and they contain passwords. > > Should I change owners of the files and put passwords somewhere else? > > > > About what you said about primes, I don't follow. > > if polls happen every 11 and 13 minute they will crash every 11x13 min. > > if polls happen every 10 and 12 minute they will crash every 10x12 min. > > as long as the numbers not divide to whole numbers like 6 and 12 does it > > will be the same. But primes ensure that situation never happend, am I > > right? > > There's no reason for 2 instances of fetchmail running at the same time > to crash as long as they aren't logging in as the same user on the > remote side. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > Hi again. I have changed owner of the .fetchmailrc files to the mail users. My problem now is that after booting the server it pulls mail, but after a while it stop. The process is sleeping and if i issue fetchmail from cli i get a message saying the daemon is being awakened, why is it going to sleep? Henning Larsen
