Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:19:36 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fetchmail in "system-wide mode" Message-ID: <20110906141936.GC61079@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <CALe6D=uBmrEWBVfP-X4W-wyB7Z5CS-NwiWkRStC1dfLxCjTtTw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALe6D=uBmrEWBVfP-X4W-wyB7Z5CS-NwiWkRStC1dfLxCjTtTw@mail.gmail.com>
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--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--
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