[plug] fetchmail keeps dying

Mike Holland myk at golden.wattle.id.au
Thu Nov 25 23:49:16 WST 1999


On 25 Nov 1999 subb3 at ibm.net wrote:

>  I can't figure out why it is dying it keeps
> dying so often.

Not surprising if you run it in silent mode.

> It is run in daemon mode. This is the command line
> I have been using.
> 
> fetchmail -a -s -K -d 900
 
> Any explanation, why fetchmail keeps dying.

 Try -v instead of -s and -d.
Have you tried 'strace'? It can make life a lot easier.
Dying how? segv? Enable coredumps and try a gdb postmortem.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
                          --==--
Chicken Little only has to be right once.



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