Re: Nothing logged into log file.

Gerard Seibert <gerard <at> seibercom.net> writes:

> This is the output of 'fetchmail -V'
>
> fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
> This is fetchmail release 6.3.4+POP2+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS.
>
> FreeBSD seibercom.net 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Jul
> 8 04:30:13 EDT 2006     ges <at> seibercom.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SEIBERCOM
> i386
>
> # Configuration created Sun Jun 25 13:57:54 2006 by fetchmailconf 1.52
> $Revision: 4740 $
>
> set logfile "/usr/home/ges/logs/fetchmail.log"
> set postmaster "postmaster"
> set bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> set daemon 900
>
> I created the log file, gave it 0666 permission and changed file and
> group ownership to fetchmail respectively. Still, there is nothing ever
> written to the file. Any logging that is done goes to the system
> /var/mail/maillog log. Other than that, everything works fine.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?

The FreeBSD rc.d script passes the --syslog option to fetchmail, which
takes precedence over the configuration file.

You need to edit /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail* to change that.

CC'ing Simon Barner (FreeBSD port maintainer), to whom I suggest
allowing different logging locations than just syslog, or to allow
custom flags to be passed to fetchmail (so that --nosyslog could
override the default).

Note that the ccil.org lists are obsolete. The new lists are described
in the "Getting help with fetchmail" section at
http://www.fetchmail.info/

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Matthias Andree