On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 10:05:26PM -0500, James Knott wrote:

I've set up fetchmail in openSUSE 12.1, but when I try to start it, I get an error: "/etc/init.d/fetchmail start returned 1 (unspecified error):"

I am using a fetchmailrc that worked previously in 11.0. There is no usefull info in /var/log/messages, other than fetchmail failed.

do you specify a fetchmail log in .fetchmailrc? -- sc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Quoting James Knott :

I've set up fetchmail in openSUSE 12.1, but when I try to start it, I get an error: "/etc/init.d/fetchmail start returned 1 (unspecified error):"

I am using a fetchmailrc that worked previously in 11.0. There is no usefull info in /var/log/messages, other than fetchmail failed.

If you are running fetchmail as a normal user, try this: fetchmail --quit fetchmail --verbose --nodetach Look at the output. Stop it with control-C. Fix any error, restart with the second command. Repeat as necessary. When it is running properly, "fetchmail" to start it running in the background again. If running in multi-drop mode as the root user, someone else will have to help you. HTH, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Quoting James Knott :

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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fetchmail --quit fetchmail --verbose --nodetach

Look at the output. Stop it with control-C. Fix any error, restart with the second command. Repeat as necessary. When it is running properly, "fetchmail" to start it running in the background again.

When I do that, it appears to be downloading a message, though that message doesn't appear in my imap server. Also, starting again in System Services still generates the error.

Please show your configuration file. I expect that fetchmail is fetching the mail okay, but delivery is failing. Maybe a changed path to procmail or maildrop, or an no longer valid procmail/maildrop file. Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

Please show your configuration file. I expect that fetchmail is fetching the mail okay, but delivery is failing. Maybe a changed path to procmail or maildrop, or an no longer valid procmail/maildrop file.

It works OK when started as a user, using the configuration that has worked for years. I am unable to start it with System Services nor after.local. Both methods have worked well in earlier openSUSE versions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 06:40:04PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

Quoting James Knott :

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Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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Please show your configuration file. I expect that fetchmail is fetching the mail okay, but delivery is failing. Maybe a changed path to procmail or maildrop, or an no longer valid procmail/maildrop file.

It works OK when started as a user, using the configuration that has worked for years. I am unable to start it with System Services nor after.local. Both methods have worked well in earlier openSUSE versions.

Are you using systemd or System V init?

I strongly suggest to stop the discussion at this point as we had the same discussion leading to no real outcome as part of this thread http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-12/msg00279.html too. At the end I suggested James to file a bug report at bugzilla.novell.com where he's able to structure all the information he already provided to us in a much nicer and easier to handle way. Thanks. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:16:27PM -0500, James Knott wrote:

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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It works OK when started as a user, using the configuration that has

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worked for years. I am unable to start it with System Services nor after.local. Both methods have worked well in earlier openSUSE versions.

Are you using systemd or System V init? At the moment, system v, as networking is unreliable with systemd (bug #736059). Fetchmail works fine with system v.

As written yesterday please file a bug report for fetmail failing with systemd. In this defect report add pointers to the list archive at http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/ too. Please do this else these both threads had been wasted energy up to 50%. Thanks. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 06:13:00PM -0500, James Knott wrote:

Lars Müller wrote:

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On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:16:27PM -0500, James Knott wrote:

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Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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It works OK when started as a user, using the configuration that has

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worked for years. I am unable to start it with System Services nor after.local. Both methods have worked well in earlier openSUSE versions.

Are you using systemd or System V init? At the moment, system v, as networking is unreliable with systemd (bug #736059). Fetchmail works fine with system v. As written yesterday please file a bug report for fetmail failing with systemd. In this defect report add pointers to the list archive at http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/ too.

Please do this else these both threads had been wasted energy up to 50%.

Bug #736092

I've added a link to the starting point of this thread. Please be this nice and add the references to the starting point in the other thread where systemd had been a topic as well. You find the list archive at http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/ The intention is to save Frederic some time. Thanks. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany