Re: fetchmail problem

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 21-Feb-99 Dave Swegen wrote:
> In debian you are supposed to put scripts which you want run when
> connecting in '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d'. Also, make sure the permssions are correct
> (-rwxr-xr-x) And (just to ask the obvious) is the command actually
> pointing to fetchmail (debian places it in /usr/bin/). Apart from this I
> can't think of any reason why it won't work, as it works just fine for me.
> This is what my .fetchmailrc looks like (owned by root):
> 
> ----------
> poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3
>         user <user> there has password <password>
>                 is dave here
> postconnect /usr/bin/runq
> ----------
> 
> And the relevant lines from the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local script look like
> this:
> 
> -----------
>#!/bin/sh
> fetchmail            # <-Just to make sure the mail is fetched immediatly on
> fetchmail -d 180     # later connects.
> -----------
I did the same thing but I am not certain I put that in ip-up.d since all
other attempts in ip-up.d failed.   I will try againby moving the script from
ip-up to ip-up.d

BTW I did use the correct path

thanks

--
Andrew