Re: ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls

[Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>]

* Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu> writes:

> *- On  6 Nov, Colin Marquardt wrote about "ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls"
>> Now, when I go online and this script is run automatically, fetchmail
>> only queries the first of my four accounts! (I can observe this because
>> I´m sending the fetcmail output to /dev/console).

> The scripts in ip-up.d are run as root.  Thus the fetchmail script you
> have would be using /root/.fetchmailrc and not your .fetchmailrc. 
> Would there happen to be a .fetchmailrc in /root that contains the
> first isp as is in your .fetchmailrc?  The way around this is to use

Indeed, there was. I alredy suspected another .fetchmailrc, but I
was mislead by locate not bringing up the one in /root/ (of course
it didn´t :-).

Thanks for your help,
  Colin

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Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de>