Re: Fetchmail INIT script
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:18:57PM -0000, Charlie Grosvenor wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to use the fetchmail init script that comes with the
> fetchmail debian package. Whenever i try and start the script i get:
>
> debian:/etc/init.d# ./fetchmail start
> Starting mail retrieval agent: fetchmail (failed!)
>
> but if it run:
>
> ./fetchmail debug-run
>
> it works fine. Why could this be?
>
> Thankyou
>
> Charlie
>
You have a missing /etc/fetchmailrc or it has syntax errors in it.
>From /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz:
"
The fetchmail-common package install a SysV initscript in /etc/init.d/
fetchmail. This script will start a fetchmail daemon running either as root
(dangerous!) or as the user fetchmail, if the configuration file
/etc/fetchmailrc is present in the system. If the configuration file is not
present, nothing is started.
The initscript is configured by the /etc/default/fetchmail file.
If the system-wide fetchmail refuses to start, you probably have syntax errors
in the /etc/fetchmailrc file. Try /etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run to find out
why it is not starting. Do notice that debug-run is NOT capable of detecting
errors that happen only in daemon mode.
"
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