From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LK997-0005By-Vv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:26:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C5CCE06A2; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay2g.uniserve.ca [216.113.194.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE262E06A2 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-108.59.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.59.108] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay2.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LK993-00036d-4l for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:26:46 -0800 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:26:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:26:44 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: weird cron mail problem Message-ID: <20090106102644.GA4567@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090105164240.GA4573@ca.inter.net> <20090105170635.GA27047@math.princeton.edu> <20090105180445.GB4573@ca.inter.net> <20090105181825.GB8629@princeton.edu> <20090105222841.GA4578@ca.inter.net> <874p0d5lme.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874p0d5lme.fsf@newsguy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.0 0 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.0 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Archives-Salt: b2df633a-2081-4771-8038-63d18dec502c X-Archives-Hash: 4540586e859ba4d57bd7b307d70c97b6 090105 Harry Putnam wrote: > Philip Webb writes: >> The problem originated 090104 c0520 , >> when I edited ~/.fetchmailrc to delete the reference to a logfile. >> However, attempts to restore the STATVS QVO ANTE have failed: >> I've restored the previous version of .fetchmailrc without success >> & I've remerged Fetchmail, rebooted & then run fetchmailconf , >> but the crazy mails continue to appear every 5 min in my inbox. > I think that looks like normal cron mail... > Looks like you may have once had a redirect to `/dev/null' > in the crontab line and inadvertently removed it. No, I have never touched the cron part of it since installing 0710xx . It looks to me as if Fetchmail reacts badly if you change anything by hand in ~/.fetchmailrc : I did exactly that without any problem when I changed ISPs 0809xx, but I also find it odd that Fetchmail is sending the mail to Uniserve, but not to my U Toronto e-ddress, which is also in .fetchmailrc . I have a few ideas of things to try today & will try yours too (thanks). Any suggestions from others are very welcome. > My fetchmail line in crontab: > */15 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/reader/.fetchmailrc >/dev/null 2>&1 > Note the difference with yours: > */5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > Not redirect in yours but note that I dump any output to /dev/null > You may first want to just say `cmd >/dev/null' , > so that any errors are still send to you but once its working smoothly > you can add 2>&1 like `cmd >/dev/null 2>&1', > so that both stderr and stdout go to dev/null > I think you can also do the same thing like this `cmd &>/dev/null -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca