Re: fetchmail restart or awaken?
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:56:04AM +0100, Christian Mascher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> still got the same problem with the way fetchmail is set up in debian
> (woody):
>
> after dialing with "pon provider" "/etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken" is called by
> fetchmail-script in ip-up.d. But fetchmail doesn't fetch mail,
> declaring a "temporary name server error". It does that all the time I'm
> offline, understandably. What I don't understand is, why it doesn't
> realize resolve.conf has changed after dialling and just goes on saying
> it can't resolve even after the awaken signal.
>
> If I change "awaken" to "restart" fetchmail gets the mail (no problem
> resolving the mail-provider's address in that case).
>
> It seems as if the fetchmail-daemon remembers it couldn't resolve
> pop.isp.xyz (after getting started on bootup) and thus repeats the error
> message without even trying, whereas a newly started copy finds out it
> _can_ resolve.
>
> Does anybody have the same problem?
Yep, but I took a different approach. I figured that I only wanted
fetchmail started while I was dialed up. So I removed all the fetchmail
startup links from /etc/rc?.d which seems to work OK.
- Chris
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