Re: Running fetchmail as a service

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>]

At 12:58 PM 4/23/2004, you wrote:
>I've tried many things to get this to work correctly, and I just don't
>seem to be able to get it working right...  Here's my best effort:
>
>[12:53:57][cbenson@Prog09:~]> rm /var/log/fetchmail.log
>rm: remove write-protected file `/var/log/fetchmail.log'? y
>[12:54:04][cbenson@Prog09:~]> cygrunsrv -R fetchmail
>[12:54:09][cbenson@Prog09:~]> cygrunsrv --install fetchmail --path /usr/bin/fet chmail --args "--nodetach --invisible -ucbenson -f /cygdrive/h/.fetchmailrc" -- disp FetchMail --desc "FetchMail remote mail retrieval and fowarding service un der CygWin" --env "HOME=/cygdrive/h FETCHMAILUSER=cbenson FETCHMAILHOME=/cygdri ve/h" --shutdown
>[12:54:59][cbenson@Prog09:~]> cygrunsrv -S fetchmail
>cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:  Win32 error 1062:
>The service has not been started.
>
>[12:55:09][cbenson@Prog09:~]> cat /var/log/fetchmail.log
>fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
>[12:55:09][cbenson@Prog09:~]> cat /var/log/fetchmail.log
>fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.
>[12:55:22][cbenson@Prog09:~]> cat /cygdrive/h/.fetchmailrc
># Configuration created Tue Apr 20 10:15:52 2004 by fetchmailconf
>set postmaster "cbenson"
>set bouncemail
>set no spambounce
>set properties ""
>set daemon 10
>poll mail.domain.com with proto IMAP
>       user 'cbenson' there with password 'xxx' is 'cbenson' here
>[12:56:35][cbenson@Prog09:~]> ls -l /cygdrive/h/.fetchmailrc
>-rw-r--r--    1 cbenson  mkgroup_      413 Apr 20 10:17 /cygdrive/h/.fetchmailrc
>
>Any ideas here?  fetchmail runs charmfully from the command line...


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Seems very odd that '/var/log/fetchmail.log' exists after the failed
attempt to start fetchmail as a service.  Are you sure it was deleted
to start with?  Also, if '/cygdrive/h' is a password protected share 
(which cygcheck output would tell me), fetchmail won't be able to access 
it.



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