Hello, With the help of this list, I have successfully upgraded from Potato to Woody! 20 hours on a dialup.
However, I am having some troubles with mail handling; exim & fetchmail With Potato, ppp ran as a daemon, fetchmail was configured, and I could issue, "fetchmail" at the command prompt to download my mail (over a dialup) from my ISP. I have been unsuccessful at such a configuration with Woody. Fetchmail appears to running as a daemon and executes a query for mail every 300 seconds. To attempt to change this, I have a /etc/fetchmailrc with the line for the daemon commented out. I have altered the line for the daemon in /etc/default/fetchmail as follows: OPTIONS="--daemon 0 --syslog" Within /etc/init.d/fetchmail there is a line, OPTIONS="--daemon 300 --syslog" However, the header of /etc/default/fetchmail indicates it is sourced by /etc/init.d/fetchmail so the presence of the immediately above line is inconsequential. I have also issued a 'dpkg-reconfigure fetchmail-common' and responded with a non-systemwide fetchmail configuration. Curiously, within /var/log/syslog is the following: Mar 26 17:53:01 debian /USR/SBIN/CRON[1649]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Mar 26 17:53:01 debian pppd[1460]: Starting link I'm assuming exim is starting ppp because of a query from fetchmail. As you can probably tell, I'm just a bit confused trying to configure fetchmail. This computer is only typically used by me, so I really don't need a systemwide configuration. There is a .fetchmailrc file in my home from the Potato configuration. Thanks in advance for your suggestions, Barry Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
