Fetchmail Bootup

[moonman89]

Hello,
Has anyone sucessfully made Fetchmail -d 300 command run on Boot up in RH8?
I have made a S11Fetchmail script and put it in ALL rd*.d folders, but fetchmail still doesent run.
When it boots and i do "ps -ef |Grep fetch or Mail" It shows no active fetchmail commands, other then the Grep one...
can anyone explain this?
Cheers,
Nathan

[Roxoff]

I thought Fetchmail ran and then quit? I didn't know it stayed resident and ran as a daemon. You can run it using cron, at regular intervals - I vaguely remember doing that when I had an odd pop3 configuration for my email.

[marlowe]

i run it on debian by linking /etc/init.d/fetchmail to /etc/rc3.d/S99fetchmail and writing the config in /etc/fetchmailrc. at one point in fetchmailrc you need to have set daemon 300. it works for me this way, but you might have to tweak this a bit to suit rh8.

[moonman89]

i run it on debian by linking /etc/init.d/fetchmail to /etc/rc3.d/S99fetchmail and writing the config in /etc/fetchmailrc. at one point in fetchmailrc you need to have set daemon 300. it works for me this way, but you might have to tweak this a bit to suit rh8.

The Fetchmail Daemon runs indefently when you run

fetchmail -d 300

And checks every 300seconds(5Mins)
But when i put it in several different places in different scripts it doesent run at all
Cheers,
Nathan

[marlowe]

in your first post you say that you can't get fetchmail to run in rh8 at boot, as a daemon. i told you what you should try in order to make it start at boot as a daemon. why would you want to "put it in several different places in different scripts"? please be more specific.

[moonman89]

I dont understand what you are trying to get me to do. What do u mean by "link"?
Sorry for the confustion and late post.
cheers,
Nathan

[marlowe]

ln -s /etc/init.d/fetchmail /etc/rc3.d/S11fetchmail

that's what i mean by linking ..i should have said that the first time. any way, what you need to do is run the command above and write your fetchmail config file to /etc/fetchmailrc.try that and post again if you're still having problems.