From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 14:55:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5BE106564A for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:55:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (client-82-26-127-91.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [82.26.127.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32CF8FC1A for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1R0wUy-000MlH-QL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:19:36 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:19:36 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110906141936.GC61079@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 Sender: Daniel Bye Subject: Re: fetchmail in "system-wide mode" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:55:28 -0000 --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 03:10:50PM +0200, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote: > Hello, >=20 > On the Internet there are some sites where they say to start fetchmail(1)= in > "system-wide" should put these two options in rc.conf(5) : >=20 > fetchmail_enable=3D"YES" > fetchmail_polling_interval=3D"60" This has worked for me in the past when I've needed fetchmail(1). >=20 > Although the second is optional and at first has little to do with this > question because this question is addressed rather to the first option. >=20 > I searched in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and rc.conf(5) manual and find no > reference to these two options. This is to be expected. fetchmail(1) is a port, not part of the base system. >=20 > I have them in my rc.conf(5) but fetchmail(1) does not start automaticall= y. >=20 > In /usr/src/UPDATING not found any reference to it. Again, what you'd expect. >=20 > Which is the correct way to start fetchmail(1) in "system-wide"? Is fetchmail installed on your system? If so, and you still can't get it to start automatically, try this: # script fetchmail_startup sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail start You'll now have a file called `fetchmail_startup' which will contain a record of exactly what the fetchmail rc script did as it executed, which may or may not prove informative. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk5mK/gACgkQixf5fBYiFmqB4QCfZSlb392OnRzacbvW1nE2pkQn P6YAoNVSBGxFY2SXF0buNIq5oUVb2DmT =bpbA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DIOMP1UsTsWJauNi--