*- On 6 Nov, Colin Marquardt wrote about "ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls" > Hi, > > the subject shows that I have no clue where to look :-) > > My problem is this: my ~/.fetchmailrc specifies four different > accounts to poll mail from. When I´m running fetchmail by hand, all > four accounts are polled, like it should. > > I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that looks like this: > > | #!/bin/sh -e > | ## This script is run when the ppp link goes up. > | > | echo "Fetchmail starting..." > /dev/console > | > | fetchmail -vvv -a 2> /dev/console > | > | echo "Fetchmail ready." > /dev/console > > Now, when I go online and this script is run automatically, fetchmail > only queries the first of my four accounts! (I can observe this because > I´m sending the fetcmail output to /dev/console). > > Has anyone an idea why this is? > My system is a plain slink in this part, fetchmail is version 4.6.4. >
The scripts in ip-up.d are run as root. Thus the fetchmail script you have would be using /root/.fetchmailrc and not your .fetchmailrc. Would there happen to be a .fetchmailrc in /root that contains the first isp as is in your .fetchmailrc? The way around this is to use the --fetchmailrc command line option. Look at the sample files in /usr/doc/fetchmail for fetchmail-up and fetchmail-down. -- Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
