William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Mac OS X's use of Launch-On-Demand is fine, because the idea that they are trying to get across is only loading things when they have to be loaded. This would work with fetchmail too, if you so wanted. Under the "Mac" philosophy here, having daemons running in the background is find but they should be spawned when incoming connection demand their need. However, there are plenty of times when you might not want to use launch on demand, so take your pick. It's your machine, do as you wish with it. For fetchmail, I think you can configure either a launch daemon to run every so often, or you can have it be persisten and let fetchmail handle that, either way is fine. -- Aaron Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ``Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.'' - Frederic Bastiat _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
