On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:05:00AM -0800, Matt Florido wrote:
> I'm running fetchmail as a daemon. I've created a script in /etc/init.d
> to start/stop fetchmail. I basically took a pre-existing script and
> modified it for fetchmail. ./etc/init.d/fetchmail start/stop/restart
> works with no issues.
>
> After I created the script, I added fetchmail to ntsysv. I believe I
> created a symbolic link in rc5.d as well. S96fetchmail ->
> ../init.d/fetchmail
>
> The problem is when the server is restarted, fetchmail is not initialized.
> What am I missing?
As a sanity check, make sure you are invoking fetchmail with the daemon
mode option turned on:
#######################################################################
DAEMON MODE
The --daemon <interval> or -d <interval> option runs fetchmail
in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling
interval in seconds.
In daemon mode, fetchmail puts itself in background and runs
forever, querying each specified host and then sleeping for the given
polling interval.
Simply invoking
fetchmail -d 900
will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your ~/.fetchmailrc
file (except those explicitly excluded with the `skip' verb) once every
fifteen minutes.
#######################################################################
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