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diff --git a/man/man1/gms.1df b/man/man1/gms.1df new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b6b0f716 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/gms.1df @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.TH GMS 1df "June 2016" "Manual page for gms" +.SH NAME +.B gms +\- run getmail(1) requests in parallel over multiple getmailrc.* files +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B gms +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B gms +runs getmail(1) for each file matching the pattern ~/.getmail/getmailrc.*, +doing much the same thing as the getmails(1) script included in the Getmail +distribution. It differs from that script in a few ways: +.IP \[bu] 4 +It includes per-rc-file locking so that at most one getmail(1) process runs for +the same account, but allows multiple instances of gms(1df) to run at the same +time. +.IP \[bu] +It runs the requests in parallel using fork(2)/wait(2). +.IP \[bu] +It uses try(1df) to attempt each fetch three times, with 15 seconds between each +attempt, and only prints errors if all three attempts fail. +.SH SEE ALSO +getmail(1), try(1df) +.SH AUTHOR +Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> |