Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

[Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:52:05PM +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote:
> Greetings All.
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> Have a bit of a drama..
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> Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and
> fetchmail is running as a cron job.
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> When I run it manually, it's fine.
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> When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following:
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> fetchmail: can't find a password for root@fetchmail.
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> Any ideas?

I think I had a similar problem once. (Can't check it any more because I
switched to getmail.)

IIRC, run manually, fetchmail reads the config file /root/.fetchmailrc ,
run autonatically, it reads /etc/fetchmailrc (or similar).
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> Kind Regards,
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> Lloyd Bayley

HTH
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Joachim Fahnenmüller