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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:02:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BFACEEA8-E2D8-4DCD-83D7-DDF71BFEE2FF@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090920153451.GB5807@solfire>


On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> ...
> When using the line:
>
>    @ 5 fetchmail -a
>
> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded
> with
>
>    fetchmail -a
>
> from the commandline.

Here my crontab says:

   0-59/4 * * * *		/usr/bin/fetchmail  > /dev/null 2>&1

I suggest trying the full path, but you  may also be able to redirect  
to somewhere other than /dev/null & perhaps see something useful?

Stroller.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-21 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-20 15:34 [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?" meino.cramer
2009-09-20 18:21 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-09-21  2:05   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-09-21  2:29     ` meino.cramer
2009-09-21  6:39       ` Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
2009-09-21 15:43         ` meino.cramer
2009-09-21 15:46           ` Ward Poelmans
2009-09-21 13:02 ` Stroller [this message]
2009-09-21 16:06   ` [gentoo-user] " meino.cramer
2009-09-22 11:46     ` Stroller
2009-09-22 13:16       ` Neil Bothwick

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