Quoting from Paul Mylchreest's mail on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:26:42PM -0400:
Because fetchmail seems to crash sometimes when running in daemon mode,
I decided to run it periodically using cron. This is my entry in the
user's crontab:
0-59/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/fetchmail 2>&1
/dev/null
I think your syntax is wrong. ">/dev/null" should occur before "2>&1".
Anyway, I think you should first try running fetchmail 6.1.0 in daemon
mode now as a few bugs relating to this have been fixed recently.
Sunil Shetye.