On 06Nov2017 00:09, Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 09:36:49PM +0100, Pétùr wrote:
If it is safe, how can you would do it? I can obviously start a
terminal ("xfce4-terminal -e "offlineimap -o") but I don't want to see
a terminal window appears.
You could start the terminal window inconified. Xterm et al have a -iconic
option, not sure that the equivalent is for xfce4-terminal.
I guess power users of offlineimap as a proper solution for temporary
emails check.
I guess most of the users open a terminal to manually start a run, yes.
You could start offlineimap in a tmux or screen session, detached.
For myself, I start a bunch of things inside nicely named tmux sessions. You
could use screen if that is your preference; I moved to tmux from screen a few
years ago. This has the advantage that one can reconnect to the session and
interrupt it, etc, versus your more traditional "run a daemon from cron or the
system rc files".
My ritual for this is to issue a command "tm start", which (a) uses my "tm"
convenience script and a ~/.tmrc file with session names and commands in it.
This starts a bunch of (detached) named sessions running useful stuff (mail
fetchers and so forth).
"tm" is here:
https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/tm
Some example entries from my own .tmrc file:
GETMAIL -K 'cd var/log' -K rig-getmail
HAPROXY -K 'svc start haproxy'
MAILFILER -K 'cd var/log/mailfiler' -K 'mailfiler monitor -d 1'
MONITOR_ROUTES -K 'set-route-flags --monitor'
PORTFWD -K 'cd var/log/portfwd' -K 'tail -F portfwd-* &' -K 'portfwd -A &'
SSHFS -K 'cd mnt' -K 'run-sshfs'
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> (formerly [email protected])
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