Re: [gentoo-user] irritating cron habit : solved

[Philip Webb]

110220 Philip Webb wrote:
> 110220 Florian Philipp wrote:
>> Just change your cron job to look like
>> 'test -e /var/run/dhcpcd.pid && fetchmail'
> That's by far the simplest & it still fetches the mail,
> so we'll see if it also avoids the occasional internal spam msgs.

Indeed it does: I tried delaying starting the I/net connection
& there is no 'dead.letter' file.  Thanks again.

PS the file is  /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid , not as above.

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