On Thursday 09 July 2020 04:14:14 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 08 iul 20, 05:12:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Also, I've not a clue how to generate the systemd-service file that > > systemd seems to be demanding and that so far I have had to rebuild > > fetchmail from src and reinstall everytime cron runs > > ~/bin/sa-train-bayes. Thats not very friendly on systemd's > > intrusions into normal daily operations. I am the only O2 breathing > > user here, so I do eventually get it to work, as me, which is all it > > has to do, but I don't appreciate the PITA the battle is with > > systemd to do what s/b normal housekeeping. So the 2nd question is > > how can this be fixed? > > It's not clear to me how is systemd interfering here, since it won't > touch your cron jobs. > > Are you maybe running fetchmail as a daemon?
Yes, and it runs as me. > > Why do you think you need to generate a service file and for what part > of the process? > It appeared that from the error messages, that systemd was denying a restart. However it also seems the error message is completely bogus as it was complaining about ~/.fetchmailrc being un-available when it clearly was. An edit to the ~/bin/sa-train-bayes script seems to have fixed it. I had to add full paths to everything the script used as it seems that script, run from _my_ crontab, no longer inherits my $PATH after the updates from backports. After the edit, it has since run normally 3 times so I assume it is now fixed. . But. I still don't understand the failure's cause. It had been running nightly since Spamassassin became available, what, 20 years back up the log? > Kind regards, > Andrei Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
