On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:38:38AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > I did my weekly aptitude update on my etch system yesterday. It included an > upgrade of fetchmail. When asked whether I wanted to replace the > configuration file, I declined, because I had a customized line in there > which I wanted to keep: > > OPTIONS="--daemon 300 --syslog" > > But apparently, in declining, I failed to set an environment variable, > START_DAEMON, which the new /etc/init.d/fetchmail wants to be there. If
I have the OPTIONS and other things in the /etc/fetchmailrc, which is the configuration file for fetchmail. The /etc/init.d/fetchmail is looking at the /etc/default/fetchmail. So, how about doing what it says, i.e. edit the /etc/default/fetchmail. Mine has START_DAEMON=yes as an only line in there. Also note that the mode of the /etc/default/fetchmail is 0600. > it's not, the script bails out because of the following lines: > > if [ ! "x$START_DAEMON" = "xyes" ]; then > echo "Edit /etc/default/fetchmail to start fetchmail" > exit 0 > fi > > I tried 'dpkg-reconfigure fetchmail' but it simply gave me the above error > message. > > Temporarily, I have commented out the above lines, and my fetchmail is > working again, but obviously that's a kludge. Any suggestions as to how I > can clean things up? > > Thanks > Patrick HTH Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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