[plug] tail -f

[Onno Benschop]

William Kenworthy wrote:

>I didnt see a reason for why you want to monitor fetchmail in this way -
>is there a reason you are not using the --interface option to fetchmail
>to force it to monitor the interface itself?
>  
>
I understand what you are asking, but I'm trying to solve a different 
problem.

I am on a network that is charged by the Mb after 1.25Gb. I have set 
fetchmail to check mail every hour, but once in a while I'm waiting for 
a specific email, so I send fetchmail the awaken command. I tail syslog 
to see if there is any mail, so I see fetchmail awaken, messages, then 
fetchmail sleep.

At the moment I'm doing that with a tail -f and a grep, but I need to 
press CTRL-C to stop the process once sleeping comes past. Russel and I 
have been playing with a tail/grep combination to overcome the need to 
interrupt the process.

I might add that while my PHP script stops when the stop word comes 
past, the process doesn't actually terminate because tail is still 
running. I haven't figured out a better way yet.


So if you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

Cheers,

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