Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- William http://williamxu.net9.org _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
