On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:18:57PM -0000, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Hi > I am trying to use the fetchmail init script that comes with the > fetchmail debian package. Whenever i try and start the script i get: > > debian:/etc/init.d# ./fetchmail start > Starting mail retrieval agent: fetchmail (failed!) > > but if it run: > > ./fetchmail debug-run > > it works fine. Why could this be? > > Thankyou > > Charlie >
You have a missing /etc/fetchmailrc or it has syntax errors in it. >From /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz: " The fetchmail-common package install a SysV initscript in /etc/init.d/ fetchmail. This script will start a fetchmail daemon running either as root (dangerous!) or as the user fetchmail, if the configuration file /etc/fetchmailrc is present in the system. If the configuration file is not present, nothing is started. The initscript is configured by the /etc/default/fetchmail file. If the system-wide fetchmail refuses to start, you probably have syntax errors in the /etc/fetchmailrc file. Try /etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run to find out why it is not starting. Do notice that debug-run is NOT capable of detecting errors that happen only in daemon mode. "
