On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 01:34 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-08-25 23:23, Andre Truter wrote:
I installed a sever with openSUSE 11.3 and we use fetchmail on it.
But when I try to start fetchmail, I get the following: --<snip>-- #rcfetchmail start Starting fetchmailfetchmail: can't find a password for fetchmail@/var/log/fetchmail. startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/fetchmail: 3 --<snip>--
Any idea how to get the daemon to start?
/etc/sysconfig/fetchmail exists? Is it correct? Post it here, changing passwords and logins.
/etc/sysconfig/fetchmail : (Comments removed) --<snip>-- FETCHMAIL_POLLING_INTERVAL="120" FETCHMAIL_FETCHALL="yes" FETCHMAIL_SILENT="no" FETCHMAIL_USER="fetchmail" FETCHMAIL_EXPERT_OPTIONS="" --<snip>-- I then have a /etc/fetchmailrc that have the accounts like this: --<snip>-- poll pop3.example.co.za proto pop3 user "user1@example.co.za" pass "thepassword" is user1 poll pop3.example.co.za proto pop3 user "user2@example.co.za" pass "thepassword" is user2 ... ... poll pop3.example.co.za proto pop3 user "userx@example.co.za" pass "thepassword" is userx ; --<snip>--
Have a look at "/var/log/fetchmail".
It is empty. I managed to run fetchmail manually as user fetchmail and then it complains that no servers are configured. We are migrating an 11.1 server over to new hardware (with 11.3), so this configuration has been working fine on 11.1. What is baffeling me is that a fresh install on 11.3 asks for a password when fetchmail is started. And the error message does not make sense to me. I also found no reference to it on google. -- Andre Truter | Software Consultant | Registered Linux user #185282 Jabber: andre.truter@gmail.com | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ "Ubuntu" is an African word meaning "SUSE is too hard for me" - Anon SUSE user ~ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org