090105 Harry Putnam wrote: > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> writes: >> The problem originated 090104 c0520 , >> when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile. >> However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed: >> I've restored the previous version of .fetchmailrc without success >> & I've remerged Fetchmail, rebooted & then run fetchmailconf , >> but the crazy mails continue to appear every 5 min in my inbox. > I think that looks like normal cron mail... > Looks like you may have once had a redirect to `/dev/null' > in the crontab line and inadvertently removed it.
No, I have never touched the cron part of it since installing 0710xx . It looks to me as if Fetchmail reacts badly if you change anything by hand in ~/.fetchmailrc : I did exactly that without any problem when I changed ISPs 0809xx, but I also find it odd that Fetchmail is sending the mail to Uniserve, but not to my U Toronto e-ddress, which is also in .fetchmailrc . I have a few ideas of things to try today & will try yours too (thanks). Any suggestions from others are very welcome. > My fetchmail line in crontab: > */15 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/reader/.fetchmailrc >/dev/null 2>&1 > Note the difference with yours: > */5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > Not redirect in yours but note that I dump any output to /dev/null > You may first want to just say `cmd >/dev/null' , > so that any errors are still send to you but once its working smoothly > you can add 2>&1 like `cmd >/dev/null 2>&1', > so that both stderr and stdout go to dev/null > I think you can also do the same thing like this `cmd &>/dev/null -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
