Re: how to let fetchmail's output shown in minibar?

[William Xu]

Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> writes:

> * William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> in gnu.emacs.gnus:
>> Are there many differences between: 
>
>> 1. fetchmail -d $interval
>> 2. a cron job running `fetchmail' every $interval
>
> Not really (except you will have to start and stop fetchmail each time,
> but the costs are negligible of course) ; I just feel 2 is less logical
> and doesn't follow totally the Unix philosophy...
>
> This might be a personal opinion, but if a tool as a feature which
> works, why use another tool to do the same thing? I think many Unix
> authors would agree with this principe. 

That i raise this question is because recently I'm playing with OS X's
launchd daemon controller, which has a nice launch-on-demand feature.
I'm not quite sure about which is better.  OS X tends to like
launch-on-demand.  

> Btw, my original answer did not mean you MUST NOT do 2, I mainly wanted
> to point out that 1 exists, which obvisouly the OP did not know.

Okay, I see.  It was the word "*designed*" that caught my eyes...  

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William

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