Re: [opensuse] fetchmail daemon fails to start on 11.3

On 2010-08-25 23:23, Andre Truter wrote:
I installed a sever with openSUSE 11.3 and we use fetchmail on it.

But when I try to start fetchmail, I get the following:
--<snip>--
#rcfetchmail start
Starting fetchmailfetchmail: can't find a password for
fetchmail@/var/log/fetchmail.
startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/fetchmail: 3
--<snip>--

Any idea how to get the daemon to start?

/etc/sysconfig/fetchmail exists? Is it correct? Post it here, changing passwords and logins.

Have a look at "/var/log/fetchmail".

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))

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