On 9 Dec, Shao Zhang wrote: > If I comment out the line "set daemon 300" in the file > ~/.fetchmailrc. Then my fetchmail works fine... > > If I run fetchmail with the above line, then id doesn't work. The > process just sits there and doing nothing...
are you sure that it's not doing anything in the background, every 5 minutes? you could try /usr/sbin/tcpdump (normally must be run as root) to see if there are any packets going between your box and the mailserver on the right port (e.g. "/usr/sbin/tcpdump host <client> and host <server>", or "/usr/sbin/tcpdump port 143" [the IMAP port - look in /etc/services for other port numbers]). > Do I have to start fetchmail in a special place?? no. mine is in my crontab file, because I don't use daemon mode. > If I put it in ip-up, do I have to use the fetchmailrc in the root > directory?? If I use that, how does fetchmail know to put in my user > account rather than root?? I would have thought you could specify which .rc file to use. looking at the man page, I find that you can do; fetchmail -f /path/to/.fetchmailrc As for where it will decide to put it, I'm not sure. A full reading of the man page might be in order. You may be able to fix it by setting the $LOGNAME or $USER environment variables in the script that calls fetchmail, but that would be a bit of a fudge, and I wouldn't recommend it. hope that helps. I've not tried any of that though. read the man page before you do! -- Graham Ashton
