On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:51:41PM +0100, Steffen Evers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 23:05, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > Fetchmail appears to running as a daemon and executes a query for mail > > every 300 seconds. To attempt to change this, I have a /etc/fetchmailrc > > with the line for the daemon commented out. I have altered the line for > > the daemon in /etc/default/fetchmail as follows: > If you do not want fetchmail run as a daemon simply remove your > /etc/fetchmailrc and the reular bootup scripts will notr start the > daemon. > > Now, you can simply execute it from the command line.
I removed the /etc/fetchmailrc file, and issued /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop and then I logged in as root and issued dpkg-reconfigure fetchmail-common and I made sure a non system wide fetchmail setup was completed. Then I issued a, "pon" and after a few minutes my system connects (initiates ppp to my ISP) without me issuing any command; like a daemon. So my problem is still not fixed. I'm beginning to wonder about exim. Before the system attempts to connect, the following occurs in /var/log/syslog: Mar 27 22:38:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[4209]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) I thought exim simply interacts with /var/spool/mail and did not attempt to create a connection. Maybe I'm wrong? Any suggestion? Thanks for you help, Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
