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| author | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2008-07-08 13:33:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> | 2008-07-08 13:33:55 +0000 |
| commit | 7c861885d41500c38eb9caef02b8aa695b1cff4a (patch) | |
| tree | 2ae66f26e6bee7350d932c083b8fb571376b8259 /fetchmail.man | |
| parent | 447370b6c73546db867c249a74a9f4863fddf735 (diff) | |
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Improve documentation: --logfile requires --daemon mode
Make this clearer, and document that --daemon is the wait
interval after completing a cycle before starting the next,
so that poll time count towards the interval.
Also take a note to make logfile more useful (used more often).
svn path=/branches/BRANCH_6-3/; revision=5216
Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.man')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 20b413d2..8e3b51f1 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1154,7 +1154,9 @@ specified host and then sleeping for a given polling interval. There are several ways to make fetchmail work in daemon mode. On the command line, \fB\-\-daemon\ <interval>\fR or \fB\-d\ <interval>\fR option runs \fIfetchmail\fR in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric -argument which is a polling interval in seconds. +argument which is a polling interval (time to wait after completing a +whole poll cycle with the last server and before starting the next poll +cycle with the first server) in seconds. .PP Example: simply invoking .IP @@ -1162,8 +1164,9 @@ fetchmail \-d 900 .PP will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your .I ~/.fetchmailrc -file (except those explicitly excluded with the 'skip' verb) once -every 15 minutes. +file (except those explicitly excluded with the 'skip' verb) a bit less +often than once every 15 minutes (exactly: 15 minutes + time that the +poll take) .PP It is also possible to set a polling interval in your \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fR file by saying 'set\ daemon\ <interval>', @@ -1202,7 +1205,8 @@ The or .B \-\-logfile <filename> option (keyword: set logfile) is only effective when fetchmail is -detached. Note that the logfile must exist BEFORE fetchmail is run, you +detached and in daemon mode. Note that the logfile must exist BEFORE +fetchmail is run, you can use the .BR touch (1) command with the filename as its sole argument to create it. |