So you'd like to know where it's hanging, right? EIther the pop server is
hanging, or your machine is. Here's a few things you can try off the top:
1) Get rid of the firewall briefly with these commands:
ipchains -F
ipchains -X
ipchains -P input ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
This will flush and delete your firewall "chains" and will set the policy for
input & output to ACCEPT. Now your box is not refusing any connections due to
your firewall. Test your fetchmail and see if it works now. If so, then you
need to tweak your firewall. Don't forget to put your firewall back up
(probably with something like "service firewall start" or some such thing.
2) Do you have another pop account? You could get one with Yahoo, set it up for
pop access, and test it with that account. This might help you know if it's the
server or not.
3) You could run "strace fetchmail" or "strace <fetchmail command>" and see if
you can get anything from that (as to where it's hanging).
4) You could run tcpdump and see if that gives you anything. I recommend
ethereal as an amazing graphical packet analyzer, you could try that.
5) You could check your logs for DENYed packets (due to firewall). Check
/var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog.
6) Something someone else says :-)
good luck
j
--- Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad (me) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Laura> When I run "InteractiveBastille -x" on my Mandrake 8.0
> Laura> system, I get this error message:
>
> Laura> About to run through config file...
> Laura> Fatal: First boot sector is version 20.0. Expecting version 21.7.
> Laura> Line to follow is 18
>
> Progress report: I decided that the LILO section would be the only
> thing that wanted to do anything about the boot sector, so I answered
> those questions differently and didn't get this error.
>
> However, now when I run the firewall, I can't get fetchmail to run. It
> can connect to the POP server, and see the mail, but it hangs on
> downloading the message. I had tried an earlier version of Bastille
> with the same result. Has anyone hit this problem and solved it?
>
>
> --
> Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ )
> (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
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