Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem



Hi,

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:52:05PM +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote:
Greetings All.



Have a bit of a drama..

Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and
fetchmail is running as a cron job.

When I run it manually, it's fine.



When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following:



fetchmail: can't find a password for root@fetchmail.



Any ideas?

I think I had a similar problem once. (Can't check it any more because I
switched to getmail.)

IIRC, run manually, fetchmail reads the config file /root/.fetchmailrc ,
run autonatically, it reads /etc/fetchmailrc (or similar).



Kind Regards,







Lloyd Bayley

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