Re: Running fetchmail as a service

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

At 02:21 PM 4/23/2004, you wrote:
>> We really need all the information requested by:
> 
>> >Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
>Attached as gz.


 From <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>:
  Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment  
  in your report. Please do not compress the output. Just attach it as a 
  straight text file so that it can be easily viewed. 


>> Seems very odd that '/var/log/fetchmail.log' exists after the failed
>> attempt to start fetchmail as a service.  
>
>Why do you say that?  Fetchmail is exiting immediately with the "no
>mailservers" error message, and that's getting logged to
>/var/log/fetchmail.log...


I suppose.  But then the service should have said it started.  Anyway,
I don't think it's a big deal.  Just odd.


>> Are you sure it was deleted
>> to start with?
>
>Yes.


OK.


>> Also, if '/cygdrive/h' is a password protected share 
>> (which cygcheck output would tell me), fetchmail won't be able to access 
>> it.
>
>Maybe :)


Definitely.  And you're cygcheck output shows that '/cygdrive/h' is a 
network share.  If it requires a password to access it, then you won't
be able to use it for fetchmail.  This will keep it from starting as a
service.  Also, don't remount /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib as text mounts.
You won't be doing yourself any favors with that.


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