Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.4-1 Severity: normal
I tried to awake the fetchmail process, obtaining this result: --- eddie:~# /etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken Awakening mail retrieval agent: fetchmaileddie:~# --- First of all it isn't cosmetically pretty! :) In second place seems "something weird is happening"(tm). I started it with sh -x: --- [...] + echo -n 'Awakening mail retrieval agent: fetchmail' Awakening mail retrieval agent: fetchmail+ '[' -r /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid ']' + su -c /usr/bin/fetchmail fetchmail eddie:~# --- Then I edited the script and removed error redirecting, changing su -c $DAEMON $USER <&- >/dev/null 2>&1 to su -c $DAEMON $USER (redirecting stderr to /dev/null should be forbidden by law), and this error was showed: "fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified", that seems to be related with the absence of the command-line argument -f. Infact, starting fetchmail by-hand with su fetchmail -c "fetchmail" mutters about the same error, while using su fetchmail -c "fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc" works fine. Because of the presence of a fetchmail process in background (so in the awakening you can't start it with the same $OPTIONS), perhaps a good solution may be using two variables, $OPTIONS and $AWAKENOPTIONS. The latter should contain only "-f $CONFFILE" and --syslog (unless the user specified "set no syslog", like you do for $OPTIONS). regards, Riccardo -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages fetchmail depends on: ii adduser 3.87 Add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.16.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8b-2 SSL shared libraries Versions of packages fetchmail recommends: ii ca-certificates 20050804 Common CA Certificates PEM files -- debconf information: * fetchmail/initdefaultswarn: * fetchmail/runasroot: false * fetchmail/confwarn: fetchmail/fetchidswarn: * fetchmail/systemwide: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
