Ron Johnson: > > [...] Why created multiple daemons for activity that's going to > run every X number of minutes, when cron is already specialized for > that purpose?
It just doesn't hurt. Maybe one could even argue that letting fetchmail
run in daemon mode takes less resources over time than having to start
it periodically (binary/libs fell out of disk cache, rereading of config
files). But fetchmail is really low on resources anyway, so I think it
is not worth "optimizing" the usage model further. At least not on my
machine (P3, 256MB RAM), which is idling most of the time anyway.
Whatever. I am not trying to convince anybody about how to use
fetchmail. Recently, I have purged it from my system. :)
J.
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