Fetchmailrc launchd configuration

[atma]

Greetings,

I want to make launchd act like cron for my fetchmail and hence I’m trying to write my first launchd xml script. Although I’ve read a lot, apparently the task is proven a bit more difficult that I imagined.
Given the fact that as a user I can run fetchmail through the command line with issues and get all my emails to $HOME/Mail/ for mutt to see, I decided to create a launchd xml startup file and place it on $HOME/Library/LaunchDaemons/ .

So here is my script

[code=xml]


Disabled

KeepAlive

Label
org.macports.fetchmail
Program
/usr/bin/fetchmail
ProgramArguments

–fetchmailrc=/Users/atma/.fetchmailrc
–pidfile=/Users/atma/.fetchmail/fetchmail.pid
–nodetach

RunAtLoad
[/code]

This is the last xml file I’ve made. The prior one, which made more sense to me was with time interval. But it did not work either. All the files I create don’t work and when I load them I get the same string of errors:

launchd[1123]: org.macports.fetchmail: exited with exit code: 1
launchd[1123]: org.macports.fetchmail: 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal

and a weird bonjour error that I can’t replicate right now and I can’t find on syslog. Since I plan to write a few more launchd scripts… Can someone explain what am I missing here?

Thanks in advance,

regards

[robinson]

In my case I did it with 2 files. First I have /etc/fetchmailrc with[code]poll mail.yourprovider.com proto pop3
user [email protected] password secret sslproto ” is user here[/code]
and then the /Library/LaunchDaemons/info.fetchmail.launchd.plist with [code]info.fetchmail.launchd.plist
sh-3.2# vim info.fetchmail.launchd.plist

Disabled

Label
info.fetchmail.launchd
ProgramArguments

fetchmail
-f
/etc/fetchmailrc
-d
300

RunAtLoad
UserName
admin
[/code]

It’s important that the UserName (in my case “admin”) is the owner of /etc/fetchmailrc

[Violet]

Hi Robinson….

Can you give me a bit more info how you achieved this.??

– File permissions…
– Debugging…..

Any help would be great.

[robinson]

I used Lingon http://sourceforge.net/projects/lingon/files/ for create the plist file. I cannot give you any advice because I don’t know much more about this by myself. Sorry.

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