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From: Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:21:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1c10dab0909201121x2691be81nb99c36651aead366@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090920153451.GB5807@solfire>

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34,  <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.
>
> May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing
> wrong here?

Are you sure the cron job runs? Check the logs. Or try adding:
*/5 * * * * fetchmail -a
in your cron file.

Ward



  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-20 18:21 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 [this message]
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 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2009-09-21 16:06   ` meino.cramer
2009-09-22 11:46     ` Stroller
2009-09-22 13:16       ` Neil Bothwick

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