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Re: Fetchmail not exiting in ip-down



See correction below!

dm-debian-user@empire.net.au (Damon Muller) writes:

> Hi gang,
> 
> I, like many of us here prolly, use fetchmail to grab my mail when I'm
> online. As such, I've set up scripts in ip-up.d to start up fetchmail as
> me to get my mail, and another in ip-down.d to stop fetchmail again when
> I log off.
> 
> My script in ip-up.d looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/su -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 300 --syslog -F -K -a --smtpaddress \
> rei' damon
> 
> Which works fine, and grabs all my mail, using my ~/.fetchmailrc
> 
> My script in ip-down.d looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> su -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --quit' damon

 /bin/su -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --quit' damon
 ; Because the path is NOT set.

> This one doesn't seem to work at all. After I log off, the fetchmail
> process is still working, and I see fetchmail messages in my xconsole.
> 
> This isn't a huge problem, but it *should* work, I would have thought.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions (yes, the script is executable, and it works
> if I call it manually from root...)

Works because it is in your path when you run manually!

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