proposed init-script for fetchmail

fetchmail init script (text/plain), 1010 bytes, created by Uwe Lohmann on 2011-02-16 21:34:37 UTC

#!/sbin/runscript

piddir=/var/run/fetchmail

# the following lines should be included in the fetchmail ebuild-script
mkdir -p /var/run/fetchmail
chmod a=rwx /var/run/fetchmail
# end ebuild script


depend() {
	need net
	use mta
}

start() {
        ebegin "Starting fetchmail"
        if [ -z $USERS ]; then
            # No user is defined in /etc/conf.d/fetchmail ==> get all users
            USERS=`cat /etc/passwd | grep home | cut -d ':' -f1`
        fi

	# simple function to get all options defined in /etc/conf.d/fetchmail
	OPTIONS=`cat /etc/conf.d/fetchmail | grep \"--\" | grep -v \"#\" | tr '\n' ' ' `

        for user in $USERS 
        do
           if [ -f /home/$user/.fetchmailrc ]; then
		# only if user has a ~./fetchmailrc file
                su $user -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail --pidfile $piddir/$user.pid $OPTIPNS"
           fi
        done
        eend ${?}
}

stop() {
        ebegin "Stopping fetchmail"
	killall fetchmail
        eend ${?}
}