On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 2:55 am, Mark wrote: > Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my > email downloads and the > server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a > cron job from root, the messages > are NOT purged off the server. As far as I can tell, the commands > should use the same .fetchmailrc file, > and the file has NOKEEP option turned on. I am at a loss to explain this. > > Thanks! > > Mark
Instead of using a cron job try running it as a daemon. Install the fetchmail-daemon RPM from your CDs It will start automatically using the /etc/fetchmailrc config file. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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