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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user <Gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] New(er) initscript for net-mail/fetchmail: now with inline config support!
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:42:04
Message-Id: CAA2qdGUjbpUQ48fvu5cMCR_j3a6BK74d2qi0CXZoPdNTCSvWBw@mail.gmail.com
1 After having Bug #380371 [1] accepted into portage tree (yay! Still having a
2 high from thatp, I present you with another enhancement on the initscript I
3 whupped up there: Bug #387009 [2].
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5 This should be a 'drop-in' enhancement to the current initscript (if you've
6 religiously updated fetchmail to the version incorporating Bug #380371).
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8 The main enhancement would be the ability to specify the fetchmail 'rc' as a
9 (multi-line) variable in the related conf.d. This reduces the number of
10 files you have to maintain for fetchmail daemons to just one (per daemon).
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12 Comments are of course very welcome!
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14 (Note: I've personally deployed the new initscript into my office's
15 production boxen, so it's tested. Bugs may still creep up, though, so I'll
16 surely appreciate any bug report.)
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18 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380371
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20 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387009
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22 Rgds,