In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Roland Hinkley wrote: >> I do still have a problem that is driving me mad. Fetchmail works fine >> when I start it as a user. Unfortunately when it tries to start at boot >> I get the message that it has failed. It also does not start up from the >> fetchmail script within ip-up. > >Make sure the /etc/fetchmailrc file in /etc is readable by the fetchmailrc >user... Also, refer to the syslog (/var/log/syslog) for error messages. >There is also "/etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run" in the newest fetchmail >packages which may be able to help you. > >--
Hi Henrique, I updated to the latest Fetchmail and ran "/etc/init.d/fetchmail debug- run" as you suggested, which was most informative. It seems that the global "fetchmailrc" has to have the execute bit set. Fetchmail now starts from 'debug-run' so just need to confirm that it starts from ip- up.d. An added bonus is that multidrop now works for my demon.co.uk account (where I collect this list). Many thanks Roland -- Roland Hinkley
