On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:55:54PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: > I looked into that, and found the fetchmail init.d script, but... > > I need to run fetchmail with the ' -a -m "procmail -d %T" ' command appended, to > deliver mail for a non-root user. How would I be able to do that? >
Just add '-d 300' to your fetchmail command line. I.e. $ fetchmail -d 300 -a -m "procmail -d %T" (And, as was already mentioned, you can also use the mda option in your fetchmailrc.) - PK > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: > > > Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time > > > it fails, and outputs "sendmail: unable to open port 25" onto the console. Since > > > one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is > > > really a pain in the rear end. > > > > > > How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? > > > > > > > I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in > > daemon mode instead of using a cron job. > > > > You can either set up daemon mode with the -d <interval> option on the > > command line: > > > > $ fetchmail -d 300 ... > > > > or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line: > > > > set daemon 300 > > > > - PK > > > > > -- > > > Paul J. Fraser > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > Paul J. Fraser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
