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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]