Fetchmail problem

[p.b.burton@att.net]

Just recently installed 2.1.  Standalone box with dialout ppp net
connection.  Running fetchmail and sendmail.

The .fetchmailrc file says 'set daemon 600' but the daemon keeps dying on
me so I have to manually do it over and over.  

I have used fetchmail on my previous system (SuSE) and have not
encountered this before.

I tried 'fetchmail -N &' (following some esr open-source advice) at the
command line but it fares no better.

Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks.

Phil