Re: Keeping offlineimap running indefinately

[Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Daniel Skinner wrote:
> What is the best way to get offlineimap running permanently and to 
> automatically get it back on its feet if any type of exception occurs?

Never tested, but you could doin the cron job a killall offlineimap and
then start a new. Or ps aux | grep ^youruser | grep offlineimap etc.
That way you ensure that no offlineimap is running before you fire up
the new instance

Best wishes

Norbert

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