[fetchmail]daemon prob fedora core 3

[Andy Heath]

> FC3 includes an RPM for fetchmail, currently 6.2.5-6. Why
> compile it unless you need special configuration options?

hmmmm .. good question.  I may have assumed it
wasnt there without looking or maybe it wasn't
(I built it a good few months ago now and only
just got around to using it in earnest and
I can't remember).

Thanks for your mail.  I'll re-install
that from the repositories and give it a whirl.

If it works out of the fc3 box tho but not
on a standard source build then something is
awry on some configuration front somewhere.
I'm new'ish to fc3 but I do like things to
build without being from the "official"
repository - never had this trouble
with slackware for a good few years.
Hope it was a sensible decision to run
with fc.

Thanks

Harry


> 
>>but can get no joy.  The only way I can get
>>it to work is by using crontab with a script
>>that kills any existing daemon then runs one
>>with "-d 0" (which sometimes terminates and
>>sometimes doesn't - hence the kill).
>>
>>I can't find anything sensible on the web on this.
>>Is there a version that works with FC3 ?  It seems
>>overkill to use cron.
> 
> 
> I run in daemon mode with no difficulty, works like
> a champ. From $HOME/.fetchmailrc:
> 
> set logfile /home/<user>/.fetchmail.log
> set postmaster "root"
> set daemon 480
> poll <server> with proto POP3 auth password
>        user "<user>" there with password "<passwd>" is <user> here
>        and ssl
> 
>