Re: System Wide Fetchmail (failed!)

[Joel Mayes <joel_mayes@dingoblue.net.au>]

>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Hinkley <roland@painswick.idps.co.uk> writes:

    Roland> I do still have a problem that is driving me
    Roland> mad. Fetchmail works fine when I start it as a
    Roland> user. Unfortunately when it tries to start at boot I get
    Roland> the message that it has failed. It also does not start up
    Roland> from the fetchmail script within ip-up.


G'day Roland, 

I think this is a common problem with Debian (at least I remember it
being on the list at infrequent intervals) my solutions is to make a
.fetchmail in my home directory edit the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail
script so it only contains.

su -c "fetchmail --daemon 300" <user-id-here>

this automaticly fetches the mail from the servers in my .fetchmail
when I connect to the web

-- 
Joel