Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:19:36 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail in "system-wide mode" Message-ID: <20110906141936.GC61079@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <CALe6D=uBmrEWBVfP-X4W-wyB7Z5CS-NwiWkRStC1dfLxCjTtTw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:10:50PM +0200, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On the Internet there are some sites where they say to start fetchmail(1) in
> "system-wide" should put these two options in rc.conf(5) :
>
> fetchmail_enable="YES"
> fetchmail_polling_interval="60"
This has worked for me in the past when I've needed fetchmail(1).
>
> Although the second is optional and at first has little to do with this
> question because this question is addressed rather to the first option.
>
> I searched in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and rc.conf(5) manual and find no
> reference to these two options.
This is to be expected. fetchmail(1) is a port, not part of the base system.
>
> I have them in my rc.conf(5) but fetchmail(1) does not start automatically.
>
> In /usr/src/UPDATING not found any reference to it.
Again, what you'd expect.
>
> Which is the correct way to start fetchmail(1) in "system-wide"?
Is fetchmail installed on your system? If so, and you still can't get it to
start automatically, try this:
# script fetchmail_startup sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail start
You'll now have a file called `fetchmail_startup' which will contain a
record of exactly what the fetchmail rc script did as it executed, which may
or may not prove informative.
Dan
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