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Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.man')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 56026d0b..0a95f033 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1366,6 +1366,8 @@ The option turns off use of .BR syslog (3), assuming it's turned on in the \fI~/.fetchmailrc\fP file. +This option is overridden, in certain situations, by \fB\-\-logfile\fP (which +see). .PP The .B \-N @@ -1377,8 +1379,7 @@ fetchmail runs as the child of a supervisor process such as .BR init (8) or Gerrit Pape's .BR runit (8). -Note that this also causes the logfile option to be ignored (though -perhaps it shouldn't). +Note that this also causes the logfile option to be ignored. .PP Note that while running in daemon mode polling a POP2 or IMAP2bis server, transient errors (such as DNS failures or sendmail delivery refusals) @@ -1702,13 +1703,16 @@ Keep permanently undeliverable mail as though a temporary error had occurred (default). T} set logfile \-L \& T{ -Name of a file to append error and status messages to. +Name of a file to append error and status messages to. Only effective +in daemon mode and if fetchmail detaches. If effective, overrides \fBset +syslog\fP. T} set idfile \-i \& T{ Name of the file to store UID lists in. T} set syslog \& \& T{ -Do error logging through syslog(3). +Do error logging through syslog(3). May be overriden by \fBset +logfile\fP. T} set no syslog \& \& T{ Turn off error logging through syslog(3). (default) @@ -2226,7 +2230,8 @@ authentication. These defaults may be overridden by later options. There are some global option statements: 'set logfile' followed by a string sets the same global specified by \-\-logfile. A command-line \-\-logfile option will override this. Note that \-\-logfile is -only effective if fetchmail detaches itself from the terminal and the +only effective if fetchmail detaches itself from the terminal, is in +daemon mode, and if the logfile already exists before fetchmail is run, and it overrides \-\-syslog in this case. Also, \&'set daemon' sets the poll interval as \-\-daemon does. This can be |