-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:14 am, Awuku Danso wrote: > Hi all > I've been trying for some time now, without success, to run > fetchmailconf on a RH8.0 system. The default installed fetchmail is > 5.9.0-20 and I've installed the corresponding fetchmailconf (5.9.0-20) > but whenever I run fetchmailconf I get the following error message: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 1976, in? > hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr (socket, gethostname ()) [0] > socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') > > I can't figure out what is happening but I would be very grateful if > someone could explain this to me and also advise on what I have to do > to get it to work. Lest I forget; upgrading the main fetchmail package > to 5.9.0-21 did not make any difference.
At what point to you get the traceback? Right at startup, when you enter the data related to the mail server, etc.? Are you able to resolve host addresses from the machine in question? Like so: $ host mail.charter.net pop.charter.net has address 209.225.8.223 $ host 209.225.8.223 223.8.225.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.charter.net. I tried running fetchmailconf and entering unresolvable domains. I got an error dialog, but couldn't make it crash, so perhaps that isn't the problem. If the problem is related to the fetchmail package itself... A fetchmail update was released within the past couple of days. The latest is fetchmail-5.9.0-21.8.0 I've built the fetchmailconf package, since Red Hat no longer builds it by default. You will have to upgrade to the most recent fetchmail package to use it. The fetchmailconf package is available here: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms/fetchmailconf-5.9.0-21.8.0.i386.rpm There is also a package for the last fetchmail update: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rpms/fetchmailconf-5.9.0-21.i386.rpm You must use the version that matches your installed version of fetchmail. [mfratoni@paradox slinky]$ rpm -q fetchmailconf fetchmailconf-5.9.0-21.8.0 [mfratoni@paradox slinky]$ rpm -q --requires fetchmailconf python tk tkinter fetchmail = 5.9.0-21.8.0 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 /usr/bin/env I don't know why Red Hat has stopped building fetchmailconf, the changelog says: * Tue Jun 11 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5.9.0-15 - - remove and obsolete the fetchmailconf subpackage (tkinter is gone, so it can't be run) However, that's not correct. tkinter is included with the distribution: $ whichcd -v 8.0 tkinter Searching for tkinter... CD-3:tkinter-2.2.1-17.i386.rpm Good luck. Hope that helps, - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+AS1Mn/07WoAb/SsRAoJmAJ9x+aHiwKL0a3EWBzrTJTUD9qWp6wCeMd2a 4zEZQlMRim83PHaTJksKVLU= =qPjK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
