fetchmail [FAILED] need more info

Gene Smith gds at chartertn.net
Mon Jan 11 03:05:04 UTC 2010


Clint Dilks wrote, On 01/10/2010 08:36 PM:
> Gene Smith wrote:
>> When I start service fetchmail all I see if [FAILED] in the startup
>> messages. I see nothing in the log messages, syslog or dmesg. Is there a
>> way to get more info on this?
>>
>> I can manually start my fetchmail using "service fetchmail start" after
>> system is up and running and it works fine.
>>
>> -gene
>>
>>
> Hi in this case its most probably the timing of when fetchmail is trying
> to start.  So first check the obvious is fetchmail trying to start
> before Networking is up for example.  You can modify when the service is
> starting by modifying the chkconfig line in your init script.
>
> Eg
> chkconfig: 35 99 95 means start in runlevels 3 and 5 S99 and K95
>
>

Yes, I had already moved it to a priority so fetchmail started after 
everything else and it still fails. E.g.,
# chkconfig 345 96 30
was:
# chkconfig 345 80 30

Tried
# chkconfig 35 96 30
and also fails.




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