Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:01:27 +0000 From: "D. Penev" <dpenev@mail.bg> To: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <20020728100127.GA371@earth.dpsca.bg>
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:07:10AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote: >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:07:10 -0700 (PDT) >From: Paulo Roberto <nirv199@yahoo.com> >Subject: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 > >Hello, > >I am having some trouble trying to run fetchmail in daemon mode, being >started from /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup in FreeBSD 4.6. >At the /var/log/ppp.log I get: >ppp[56]: tun0: Command: papchap: ! sh /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v -f >/root/.fetchmailrc >> /tmp/FETCHMAIL.LOG I have such troubles so I put fetchmail in daemon mode with command argument instead of .fetchmailrc. Remove any "set daemon ..." in .fetchmailrc and try this in ppp.linkup: ! /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d <interval> >But no mail is retrieved (yup, I sent myself dozens of emails to test >it) and even no output is directed to my test file. >Does fetchmail needs any special parameter to be run at ppp.linkup? > >thanks > >Paulo Roberto > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com > >------------------------------ -- Regards, D. Penev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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