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