On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:11:42PM +0000, alan@catalyst.net.nz wrote: > Fetchmail is not fetching my email properly when > invoked from a script in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail reads ... > #!/bin/sh > # run fetchmail > test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && // > fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc > > Syslog contains the following ... > > Aug 10 20:32:41 calliope fetchmail[9256]: fetchmail: POP3 connection > to pop3.paradise.net.nz failed: temporary name server error. > Aug 10 20:32:41 calliope fetchmail[9256]: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d also contains 00ipmasq to rerun the firewalling rules > over the new interface (ppp0) and 0dns-up which sets up > /etc/resolv.conf for the provider being connected to. > > The fetchmail script (above) runs fine from the command line. > > For completeness /etc/fetchmailrc reads ... > > poll pop3.paradise.net.nz proto pop3 user [USERNAME] with password > [PASSWORD] > > NB: [ ]'s replace actual values. You're probably running fetchmail before your connection and/or DNS configuration have been established. Try putting a "sleep nn" argument before running fetchmail, with a value of "nn" ranging from 30 to 300 seconds. I'd think 30-60 should cover it. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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