On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Roland Hinkley wrote: > Hi, > > I am slowly getting my Debian System up and running. > > 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. How does your script in ip-up look like? You need to tell fetchmail where to look for the fetchmailrc. > > I have created a fetchmailrc in /etc. there is a fetchmail entry in > /etc/default. > > Cheers > Roland > Frank