Ooooh! Only a guess -- but make a crontab entry that runs every five minutes that runs "runq". Probably it should run as 'mail', but I can't be sure.
See what this does. :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:39:27AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > I'll post this problem one last time: I must type runq at the console after > running fetchmail in order for my e-mail reader to see my new mail. This > never happened before, that is until I installed Netscape 4.61 the other day; > before, I would run fetchmail and smail ran the queue automatically. > > This is more an inconvenience than anything else---my system isn't broken. > But what can I do to remedy this? > > Some info: When installing Netscape, the configuration script said that smail > may have to be restarted, and so it was. Also, when reconfiguring smail last > night (smailconfig), a message that "There is no crontab" came up. My smail > daemon is run via a inet.d. > > Should I bag smail and use another MTA? > > Thanks all, > Dave > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
