Skippi grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone.  I got a couple of answers --
> /var/spool/mail/skippi
> and
> /var/mail/<username>
> and that is what I was afraid of.  I don't have either of those files.
> Evidently something with sendmail is still not set up correctly.  I'm
> going to play some more and I'm sure you will all get another post from
> me in a few days once I have re-read everything you guys have sent me
> and gone through this all again from the top.

Exactly HOW are you running fetchmail?  I assume that you're either
running it from a shell directly, or periodically via a cron job.

If from the shell, how are you logged in at the time that you run
fetchmail?  Are you logged in as skippi or another user?  If via a cron
job, which user created the crontab entry for that job?  skippi?  root?
Something else?

/var/mail is simply a soft link to /var/spool/mail, BTW.  Look
in /var/spool/mail.  What files are there?

   --Dave "I've got a creeping feeling he's running it as root" Guntner




Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to