* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010106 01:44]: > fetchmail was being started by my ip-up scripts, which activate when a dial > up connection starts. > > My first thought was to create an init.d/script for fetchmail (I used the > one for exim as a model). Then I ran .. (can't remember the name and I'm > not on Debian right now) script to automatically put the "usual" links in > rc?.d/, giving it a sequence number (25) that was higher than > exim's. Initially I didn't have the right permissions, but I fixed them. > > It doesn't work, and it leaves no trace of why in the logs. fetchmail is > configured to write to fetchmail.log, but after doing a find from / I > couldn't find any written after my boot up.
Try adding the location of your .fetchmailrc file to the end of the command. Regards Hall Stevenson