From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 6:30:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from FENIX.MINE.NU (CC4140-a.sneek1.fr.nl.home.com [212.120.108.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D177337B768 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 06:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenix@fenix.mine.nu) Received: from Fenix (Lan [192.168.0.65]) by FENIX.MINE.NU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA01718; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:30:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from fenix@fenix.mine.nu) From: "FENIX" To: Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: fetchmail Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:29:34 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <00061109174400.00285@rknebel.uplink.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can specify the location of the .fetchmailrc fiile in your rc.local, try man fetchmail May the source be with you ! > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Knebel > Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 3:14 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: fetchmail > > > Hi, > > I am trying to run fetchmail as root for multiple users. > I thought I could put the fetchmailrc in the root directory and > the command to > start the daemon in my rc.local. > On boot up I keep getting the message mailserver not specified. > If I log in as root and issue the command fetchmail -d 30 > everything works > fine. > > I though that the fetchmail in rc.local would look to the root > directory for > the .fetchmailrc file? > > > Thanks > Rick > > > > > -- > Rick Knebel > rknebel@uplink.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message