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

[William Xu]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Are there many differences between: 
>>
>> 1. fetchmail -d $interval
>> 2. a cron job running `fetchmail' every $interval
>
> Not in the result.  But surely in the process.  My guess is that running
> fetchmail as a daemon is faster and less resource-consuming.

"faster", maybe.  

"resource-consuming", looks like just the opposite.  The daemon version
will stay in the memory, eating cpu all through its life; the non-daemon
just wakes up at the right moment, finish the job, quit.

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William

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