200304 William Kenworthy wrote: > On 4/3/20 8:58 am, Jack wrote: >> Can you try to run fetchmail manually, >> perhaps with increased verbosity or debug output ? > Fetchmail itself is independent of cron - > it doesn't use it for scheduling, > at least in the configurations I use (fcron). > You can cron fetchmail, buts that's not normal. > 'cron' programs by default have a very stripped down environment > which is the usual cause of errors & can be hard to identify whats missing. > If it's something like emailing an error log or test commands, > run the commands from the error message manually, > then via a test cron entry to narrow it down. > Try grep'ing /etc to find the actual commands.
Thanks to both. I've found the source of the msgs : Fetchmail was polling 2 mail servers, my ISP + a university a/c ; when I commented the lines for the latter in .fetchmailrc , they stopped. Since I no longer expect to get mail via the UoT a/c, I can leave it at that, tho' perhaps I should amend my sig below. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
