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<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/06/11 07:49:05 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/06/25 18:09:02 $
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<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ IP address?</a><br>
<a href="#R5">R5. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.</a><br>
<a href="#R6">R6. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a><br>
<a href="#R7">R7. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a><br>
+<a href="#R8">R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade</a><br>
<h1>Disappearing mail</h1>
@@ -1039,7 +1040,7 @@ Simply create a dot-qmail file called '.qmail-mbox-userstr-default'
in the alias directory (normally /var/qmail/alias) with the contents:<p>
<pre>
- | ../bin/qmail-inject -a -f"$SENDER" "${LOCAL#mbox-userstr-}@$HOST}"
+ | ../bin/qmail-inject -a -f"$SENDER" "${LOCAL#mbox-userstr-}@$HOST"
</pre>
Note this <em>does</em> require a modern /bin/sh.<p>
@@ -1834,6 +1835,14 @@ option values that work:<P>
</pre>
<hr>
+<a name="R8">R8. Fetchmail running as root stopped working after an OS upgrade</a>/h2>
+
+In RH 6.0, the HOME value in the boot-time root environment changed
+from /root to / as the result of a change in init. Move your
+.fetchmailrc or use a -f option to explicitly point at the file.
+(Oddly, a similar problem has been reported from Debian systems)<P>
+
+<hr>
<h2><a name="D1">D1. I think I've set up fetchmail correctly, but I'm not getting any mail.</a></h2>
Maybe you have a .forward or alias set up that you've forgotten about. You
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<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/06/11 07:49:05 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/06/25 18:09:02 $
</table>
<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>