On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:36:33PM -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote: > I am having a problem using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to start fetchmail when I use > pon to connect. there is a script in there that wil start fetchmail for me as > desired via command line. yet fetchmail still won't start on it's own when I > connect to my ISP. Any ideas why. Or where to look for more info. I have > re-read all manpages I could think of.
Two possible problems:
1) Have you made the script executable?
2) You need to make sure fetchmail is running as the correct user -
by default they will start as root. You can use su in the script
to change the user that fetchmail is run as.
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