Question

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> > 
> > No, running it as root is fine. This gives you the capability of running
> > any and all fetches from one location and one daemon with one timer.
> > /root/.fetchmailrc needs to be configured and look something like:
> > 
> > # Configuration created Sat Jan 19 by KLP
> > set logfile "/var/log/fetchmail"
> > set postmaster "postmaster"
> > set bouncemail
> > set properties ""
> > set daemon 120
> > poll remote_mail_server.com and options no dns
> >        user 'your_remote_user_name' there with password 'remote_pw' is
> > 'local_user' here options fetchall
> >     smtphost  your_mail_server_domain.com
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > >> Reading what others posted about fetchmail I though I would
> > >> change my setup and run in rc.local using the command "fetchmail
> > >> -v -v -l0 -d900" but it doesn't seem to want to start there.
> > >
> > > Don't use "-v"s when running as a daemon--daemons don't have a stdout.
> > >
> > >> Where do you put your fetchmail command to get it running on
> > >> boot?
> > >
> > > You could put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local but you'd need to prefix it
> > > as
> > >
> > > 	su -c "fetchmail -d 900" normalusername
> > 
> > I just put the line:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/fetchmail
> > 
> > in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it comes up on boot and with the
> > /root/.fetchmailrc file (permissiona: 710) as above (with other fetch
> > sites removed for brevity), it's very nice and hasn't fallen down for
> > several years.
> > 
> > Karl
> > 
> > 
> Thank you, I've set it up to run under /etc/rc.d/rc.local but 
> when the computer boots I get the error message "no mailserver 
> has been specified"  Is fetchmail still running (how can I tell)?  
> Is it getting  this message as the machine isn't fully booted up 
> yet and can't see /root/.fetchmailrc yet or what?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Brad

OK, with it just in rc.local fetchmail doesn't seem to want to 
run.  Any suggestions?

Brad