fetchmail at login
Dear Debianers I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the program? Thanks in advance! -- ___ Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail at login
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:20:47PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear Debianers > > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > program? You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed after you login. Best Regards, fsm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: fetchmail at login
> > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > > program? > > You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed > after you login. Might be better to add it to his .bash_profile, unless he's got .bash_profile set up to read .bashrc (which, I believe, is not the default in Debian).
Re: fetchmail at login
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:35:37PM -0500, Colin Cashman wrote: > > > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > > > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > > > program? > > > > You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed > > after you login. > > Might be better to add it to his .bash_profile, unless he's got .bash_profile > set up to read .bashrc (which, I believe, is not the > default in Debian). Can't check right now, but IIRC one of them sources the other. Still, you are probably right. Best Regards, fsm -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: fetchmail at login
You may benefit from also checking out getmail. It's simpler, cleaner and may be less prone to dropping mail (a fact advertised by the author of getmail). I find it works really well, particularly when combined with wmbiff. Wmbiff can be set up to execute getmail whenever its polling detects mail arriving at the server. Since I live in X this works better for me than starting it at login time. I also like that it's written in Python, and therefore theoretically easy to modify. Good luck, Steve Cooper Colin Cashman wrote: > > > I want a program to start automatically each time I login into my > > > account. In which initializing file should I write the name of the > > > program? > > > > You could add the command to your .bashrc file, it will be executed > > after you login. > > Might be better to add it to his .bash_profile, unless he's got .bash_profile > set up to read .bashrc (which, I believe, is not the > default in Debian). > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running fetchmail at login time
I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several consoles? Thank's -- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Selling Soluciones Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 __
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
Have you checked fetchmails homepage? I remember seeing a FAQ or something there describing how to do this. The gist of it revolved around creating/removing temporary files using ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_logout using a specific file mask, ~/.bash_logout would look for other files, and if only one existed, would terminate fetchmail on its way out... hmm, looking at the fetchmail faq, it says the script that does this, is in the contrib directory in the fetchmail distribution, so you may need to download it yourself. On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +0100 or thereabouts, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to do > it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How can I > prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several consoles? > > Thank's > > -- > __ > Daniel de los Reyes > S2-Selling Soluciones > Valencia Spain > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 > __ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --* Brad Burns *-- Fortune of the Minute: To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other. -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts pgp4JvIXZyGtF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
> I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time > I log in but I don't want to do it manually.Is > bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it > from? How can I prevent it form being launched > several times if I login at several consoles? I don't believe fetchmail will run multiple instances of itself. I occassionally "force" fetchmail to run in between the time it runs normally (it's set to run every 10 or 15 minutes in daemon mode). If I force it, it simply "wakes" the original instance. It actually outputs something like "fetchmail daemon awakened ... process number xxx". You could also do something like checking for fetchmail's PID and if it already exists, not run the command again. Regards Hall
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
Here are the scripts that I use (modified from the ones in the contrib directory of the fetchmail distro) ~/.bash_profile # Start Fetchmail up when I Login. #- modified from script in contrib section #- 1/24/01 Vinod Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] TDEV=`tty | sed -n -e "s#/dev/##p"` if [ ! -s ~/.fetchmail.pid ]; then echo -n "Starting fetchmail daemon..." fetchmail -d 300 echo $TDEV > ~/.fetchmail.owner echo "done." fi # END of Fetchmail startup ~/.bash_logout # Below is for Fetchmail clean up #- modified from logout script in contrib section #- 1/24/01 Vinod Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] TDEV=`tty | sed -n -e "s#/dev/##p"` if [ -s ~/.fetchmail.pid ]; then if [ -s ~/.fetchmail.owner ]; then OWNER=`cat ~/.fetchmail.owner` if [ $TDEV = $OWNER ]; then rm -rf ~/.fetchmail.owner fetchmail -q >/dev/null 2>&1 fi fi fi # END of Fetchmail clean up HTH, Vinod On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:18:03AM -0500, Brad Burns wrote: > Have you checked fetchmails homepage? I remember seeing a FAQ or something > there describing how to do this. The gist of it revolved around > creating/removing temporary files using ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_logout > using a specific file mask, ~/.bash_logout would look for other files, and if > only one existed, would terminate fetchmail on its way out... hmm, looking at > the fetchmail faq, it says the script that does this, is in the contrib > directory in the fetchmail distribution, so you may need to download it > yourself. > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +0100 or thereabouts, Daniel de los Reyes > wrote: > > I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to > > do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How > > can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several > > consoles? > > > > Thank's > > > > -- > > __ > > Daniel de los Reyes > > S2-Selling Soluciones > > Valencia Spain > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r2 > > __ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > --* Brad Burns *-- > Fortune of the Minute: > > To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons > in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other. > -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts -- _ Vinod Kurup, MD email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 617.277.2012 cell: 617.359.5990 http://www.medicalrecords.com
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
Yes, use .bash_profile. When you invoke fetchmail, if it is already running as a daemon it will simply wake the daemon process and cause it to check at that time. Then in your .bash_logout file put "fetchmail --kill" to terminate the daemon when you logout. (Unless you want to to run all the time) -D On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: | I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several consoles? | | Thank's |
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to > do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How > can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several > consoles? Here's how I do it. First, I wrote a script called fetchmail.sh, which is located in my home directory. Here's the script: - Begin fetchmail.sh - #! /bin/bash LOGCOUNT=w -hsf|grep mike|wc -l MAXCOUNT=1 case "$1" in start-daemon) if [ -e ~mike/.fetchmail.pid ] then exit fi fetchmail -d 120 ;; start) if [ -e ~mike/.fetchmail.pid ] then exit fi fetchmail ;; stop-daemon) if [ ! -e ~mike/.fetchmail.pid ] then exit fi if [ $LOGCOUNT -eq $MAXCOUNT ] then fetchmail --quit fi ;; esac exit 0 - End fetchmail.sh - Yes, I know that this script is kinda ugly. But it works, and that's all I was after. In my ~/.bash_profile I have a call to "~/fetchmail.sh start-daemon" and in my ~/.bash_logout I have a call to "~/fetchmail.sh stop-daemon" This script could probably be cleaned up some, but like I said *it* *works* for me. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgp9X5XO6ikXy.pgp Description: PGP signature
