I have a SuSE 9.3 box connected to the net via ADSL using PPPoE. THe box collects mail with fetchmail and distributes it to local mailboxes. I have fetchmail set up as a service, but it seems that ip-up (or something) stops fetchmail and even disables it as a service when the ADSL link drops and gets started again. I cannot see any incriminating evidence in the log file, but fetchmail is running as a deamon, started with the fetchmail init script, collecting mail every 5 minutes. Then the ISP drops the line, the ppp interface goes down. We have a script that detects that the link is down and starts the ppp link again. So, the ADSL connects again and then ip-up runs fetchmail and it collects mail and then exit. After that, the fetchmail daemon is not running anymore and it has been disabled in the startup scripts! # rcfetchmail status Checking for service fetchmail unused # chkconfig -l fetchmail fetchmail 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off Any idea why this is happening? What is disabling the fetchmail deamon and who gave it authorisation to do so? If I catch it, it will be keel-hauled... :-) The ADSL modem used to be in router mode and everything worked fine, then we changed it to bridge mode so that the SuSE box will control the connection and do the firewalling. That is when the problems started. Postfix is set up to run in 'permanent' mode. Should I change it to 'dial-up mode'? Any ideas where I should start to look? Thanks -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.co.za ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~