On Wednesday 08 October 2003 12:30 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Thanks all, I have it working in a desireable fashion now. > > I am once again using fetchmail + postfix and, now, spamassassin to deal > with my incoming mail. Procmail is properly directing a subset of my mail > to my mailbox directly and passing the rest through spamassassin - and a > 30+ second delay for spamassassin processing isn't a problem. Procmail is > also /dev/nulling all emails identified as spam so I never have to see any > of it. Nice. > > A new question now. Fetchmail gave me a bit of a fit at first. I ran > fetchmailconf as user and then ran fetchmail as user and this was fine, > except I'd rather not have to start fetchmail myself every time I start my > laptop up - I'd rather have it run as a daemon. I DID get the fetchmail > daemon working eventually, but only after manually editing > /etc/fetchmailrc. As root or user, all running fetchmailconf would do is > create a > ~/.fetchmailrc file while daemon mode requires /etc/fetchmailrc. I tried > doing it from webmin as well to no avail. In the end, I copied my > ~/.fetchmailrc file to /etc/fetchmailrc so that I could run the fetchmail > daemon. How does one normally setup the daemon instead of running personal > instances of fetchmail, that is, how is /etc/fetchmailrc normally created? > I am assuming that I should not have to do what I did above and copy my > personal .fetchmailrc to /etc/fetchmailrc. >
The init script for fetchmail normally tries to use /etc/fetchmailrc as a systemwide default fetchmail configuration file. You can however, change this to point to wherever you want it to draw from. So, on the run line, simply add the -f option so that the run command looks like: daemon fetchmail -d 180 -f /root/.fetchmailrc or if running as user daemon fetchmail -d 180 /home/user/.fetchmailrc although once you get the rc file setup, I am not sure why you would want to change it. The init script, if you want to change it is /etc/init.d/fetchmail -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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