From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 0: 3:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79F337B400 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 00:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.bg (dialup249.varna.spnet.net [213.169.38.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F1443E31 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 00:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpenev@mail.bg) Received: from mail.bg (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bg (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6SA1Zoa000509; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:01:35 GMT (envelope-from dpenev@mail.bg) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.bg (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6SA1Rnj000508; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:01:27 GMT Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 10:01:27 +0000 From: "D. Penev" To: Paulo Roberto Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 Message-ID: <20020728100127.GA371@earth.dpsca.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 07:07:10AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote: >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:07:10 -0700 (PDT) >From: Paulo Roberto >Subject: starting fetchmail from ppp.linkup on FreeBSD 4.6 > >Hello, > >I am having some trouble trying to run fetchmail in daemon mode, being >started from /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup in FreeBSD 4.6. >At the /var/log/ppp.log I get: >ppp[56]: tun0: Command: papchap: ! sh /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -v -f >/root/.fetchmailrc >> /tmp/FETCHMAIL.LOG I have such troubles so I put fetchmail in daemon mode with command argument instead of .fetchmailrc. Remove any "set daemon ..." in .fetchmailrc and try this in ppp.linkup: ! /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d >But no mail is retrieved (yup, I sent myself dozens of emails to test >it) and even no output is directed to my test file. >Does fetchmail needs any special parameter to be run at ppp.linkup? > >thanks > >Paulo Roberto > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better >http://health.yahoo.com > >------------------------------ -- Regards, D. Penev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message