on Fri, Apr 26, 2002, Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > > > I've changed the inovcation to read: > > > > > > 3,18,33,48 * * * * root /etc/init.d/fetchmail start 1>/dev/null > > > > > > Checking just now, the daemon's still running. > > > > Change that /dev/null to /tmp/wtfisupwithfetchmail for a while, and see > > what your script is telling you. > > > > Sounds like your script isn't killing fetchmail on a "start". > > ...as it shouldn't. It should say "fetchmail already running" and not > do anything else if fetchmail is running. If he wanted it to restart > every time, he should change the "start" to "restart" (but it that > case it wouldn't make sense to run fetchmail as a daemon). > > I don't know how the start-stop-daemon stuff works, but I'd guess it's > erroneously detecting a running fetchmail process (because of a > leftover pid file perhaps?) so it won't ever start fetchmail.
Running this manually seems to work. The cron job wasn't turning the trick. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Kernels don't "grow" unless you compiled with the CHIA_PET option in your configure file perhaps. -- M. Schubert in misc@openbsd.org
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