User2 has an email account: iloveemail@another.isp.com She logs into Linux. She can't dial out - because the modem is being used by User1. But, fetchmail has already been started as a daemon. Is User2's .fetchmailrc file downloading email from iloveemail@another.isp.com (eventhough she never executed the ip-up script?
We would need to see the script that called fetchmail as a daemon. You are talking about the .fetchmailrc file in the user's directory which does nothing to start the daemon but is only a Resource Configuration file (hence the "rc" in .fetchmailrc). I have my users set up to start the daemon when they log in by having a "getmail" script in each users ~/bin directory and I place the getmail command in each users .bashrc file. To stop the daemon when they log out, I put "fetchmail -q" in their .bash_logout file to automatically stop the daemon when they log out. Running fetchmail as a daemon when the system is not conected to the internet merely generates error messages and you can specify in the .fetchmailrc file a log file to place the error messages in. If fetchmail is unable to connect to the mail server, it just places an error message in the log file you specify, but tries to poll the server continuously at the interval you specify. Mark -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/