[plug] Running fetchmail (or any terminal program) from a web page.

[John Summerfield]

> Thanks also for the advice John. I think I'll do it the way you suggested.
> Just one question about how you are bringing it down. Say I run fetchmail -d
> 1800 in if-up, I know I can issue a kill -9 but this is a bit ugly. What are
> you doing to shut it down ??? (If I leave it running it puts ugly mail
> messages in the inbox about fetchamil failing etc)

man fetchmail says
       The option --quit  will  kill  a  running  daemon  process
       instead  of  waking  it  up  (if  there is no such option,
       fetchmail notifies you).  If the --quit option is the only
       command-line option, that's all there is to it.


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