On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 04:50:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried commenting out the following lines in my ~/.fetchmailrc file > like so: > > ----------------------------------------------------- > # This is what the developer's .fetchmailrc looks like: > > set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals > > #defaults > # interface "sl0/10.0.2.15" # SLIRP standard address > # user esr is esr fetchmail-friends magic-numbers here > # fetchall > -------------------------------------------------- > > I logged in and out to be sure the changes in the file took but I still > get the following > error: > > fire:/home/fkent# fetchmail -c mail.inebraska.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Does that mean you are doing this as root? If so, try doing it as your regular user (in this case, as user fkent) and see what happens. If that still doesn't work, do (as root): ifconfig -a route
and send us the output from those two. > fetchmail: skipping poll of mail.inebraska.com, sl0/10.0.2.15 down > > I took a look at /usr/bin/fetchmailconf and don't see anywhere > I can turn off those numbers. > I don't have 'X' on this system. I suppose it would be a snap if > I could use the 'X' fetchmail config tool to get things set up. /usr/bin/fetchmailconf *is* the GUI tool for fetchmail configuration as near as I can tell. I've never used it. In fact I wasn't even aware it existed until you mentioned it. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
