I have just reinstalled debian potato on this system and now some things don't work as they did before. Now I copied a lot of my config files before reinstalling so things really should be the same.
Here is a specific example: I run fetchmail after establishing my ppp connection - it all works fine and gets the mail fine but I no longer can watch the progress in /var/log/syslog - no logging whatsoever. I call fetchmail with the --syslog flag and also the fetchmailrc has set syslog in it. It is also the same fetchmailrc and script calling fetchmail as I had on the previous system which worked fine. I think it must have something to do with how I installed sysklogd or something like that. But I have checked /etc/syslog.conf and it is the same as on another potato system which works fine - also with same fetchmail calling script and substantially the same fetchmailrc. It doesn't make sense to me. Any ideas? Thanks. Mark.
