jdk

I'm a recent convert to Gentoo. I followed the console mail tools doc on
the Gentoo site. So I have mutt, nbsmtp, procmail, and fetchmail all
setup and working individually. However, I've tried to setup a cron to
fetch my mail, and can't seem to get it working. If I run my command
from the prompt, it completes normally, fetches my mail, and all is well.
But from the cron job, I never get any mail. The messages log shows that
the cron job is running, with no obvious errors.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

TIA,
jdk


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filip legeny

I'd say you have run as daemon option somewhere in your .fetchmail so
the first cron job will execute a deamon and all ohers cra$h because of
this.

if not, you should redirect output to some file and look for errors.


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lukas

Create a config file etc/fetchmailrc for the mailboxes you wanna check
and add /etc/init.d/fetchmail to your default runlevel.
The default interval between the mailchecks is 120s. You an change this
value by editing /etc/init.d/fetchmail.

cu

lukas

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pat kerwan

Is your cron job running as root, instead of as your regular user? - PK


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lukas

/etc/fetchmailrc should have set file permissions to 600 (access
allowed for root only)!

cu

lukas

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brett i. holcomb

You run fetchmail -d xx where xx is the interval in seconds. Check man
fetchmail. I start mine in /etc/conf.d/local.start with sudo -H -u myname
fetchmail -d 60. Or do rc-update add fetchmail default and it should
start.


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jdk

Double checked. Not running in daemon mode. That's what I'm specifically
avoiding running as a cron.

jdk


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jdk

I'd rather have it all running from my user cron. Is there a reason it
should not work that way. I looked at the log and find two entries each
time it runs:

Jun 25 05:52:00 starport CRON[28632]: (jdk) CMD (/usr/bin/fetchmail -aKF -f "/home/jdk/.fmfreeshell" -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d )
Jun 25 05:52:00 starport CRON[28631]: (jdk) MAIL (mailed 125 bytes of output but got status 0xffffffff )

I'm not sure what the second line is indicating. I do notice that the
cron command shown above is incomplete. I don't know if that is just
cutoff in the log or it's actually using the wrong command line. The
command is actually:

/usr/bin/fetchmail -aKF -f "/home/jdk/.fmfreeshell" -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

As you can see, the %T" is cutoff the end. Am I on to something?

TIA,
jdk


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greg donald

Is it possible you are using an editor with cron that is hard wrapping
the long lines?

I dunno if it'll help much but my fetchmail entries looks like this:
0-59/10 9-17 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog -d0 -a -K -t 600 -m
"/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" >/dev/null 2>&1
0-59/30 18-23,0-8 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog -d0 -a -K -t 600
-m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" >/dev/null 2>&1
0-59/30 * * * 0,6 /usr/bin/fetchmail --syslog -d0 -a -K -t 600 -m
"/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" >/dev/null 2>&1


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