Re: System Wide Fetchmail (failed!)
In article <[🔎] 87itfkfnuz.fsf@dingoblue.net.au>, Joel Mayes
<joel_mayes@dingoblue.net.au> writes
>>>>>> "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
>
>
Hi Joel,
Many thanks for your reply. Yes I found lots of articles in the archives
but no real answers.
I will give your suggestion a try.
Cheers
Roland
--
Roland Hinkley
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