fetchmail AHHHH!!!!!

[FiniteRed]

Hi everyone

This problem is driving me nuts as it seems so simple, but I cant fix it!

I have a mail server running, this mail server uses fetchmail to pick up e-mails running from my ISP, I cannot get fetchmail to run on start-up with the following options:

fetchmail –d 60

I have written a script, placed it in the init.d directory, set it to executable with chmod and run rc-update - but still it does not work! :cry:

Every time the server restarts I have to log in and manually type this command in, can someone please tell me how to get fetchmail to do this upon start-up?

Thank you so much :)

FR

[dperfors]

can you run that script by hand? (/etc/init.d/<scriptname>)

how does the script looks like?

[FiniteRed]

Yes indeed I can run it manually and it works, the script looks like this:

fetchmail -d 60

That's it, am I missing something / everything?

FR

[moonpup]

You may have the script in the /etc/init.d, but is the script actually linked to the runlevel you boot into?

[windependence]

You can use update-rc.d for start-only or stop-only scripts

Start my script on startup :
# update-rc.d -f my_script start 99 2 3 4 5 .

where
- start is the argument given to the script (start, stop).
- 99 is the start order of the script (1 = first one, 99= last one)
- 2 3 4 5 are the runlevels to start

Dont forget the dot at the end
More info in /etc/rcS.d/README

Start my_script on shutdown and reboot :
# update-rc.d -f my_script start 90 0 6 .

Stop my_script on halt and reboot :
# update-rc.d -f my_script reboot 90 0 6 .

If you want to make your own demon, you can use the skeleton file provided at
/etc/init.d/skeleton

about runlevels :

To know which runlevel you are running, simply type
$ runlevel

more info about runlevels here : http://oldfield.wattle.id.au/luv/boot.html#init

happy scripting

[HermanAB]

Try using the full path to the executable.

Cheers,

Herman