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Re: Where do I start fetchmail?



Hello,

> 	What is the right place to start fetchmail??
> 
> 	I would think to put them ip-up.
> 
> 	But it didn't work. I psed the process, it was there, then
> disappeared after a while. Is it because it has some problems to read the
> ~/.fetchmailrc??

Don't forget that ip-up.d scripts get run as root, so you'll need your
.fetchmailrc in ~root

If you want to see what's going on, you can use
        /bin/open -s -w /usr/bin/fetchmail
in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail instead of whatever the default is (you'll need
the "open" package to do that).


HTH

Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>


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