From 2520ad54cf89894c178e5dca3cb7968edf481157 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:41:22 +0000 Subject: Deal with the possibility that we might be running as a subprocess. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2784 --- NEWS | 5 ++++- fetchmail.man | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 06f2b414..ae0882de 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ ssh for a secure passwordless connection. Removed the FAQ entry on popclient. * Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino sent a fix for IPv6. -* Fix Red Hat bug 9982: fetchmail now automatically pups up an edit panel +* Fix Red Hat bug 9982: fetchmailconf now automatically pups up an edit panel whenever a new user or site is created. +* Deal gracefully with the possibility that we might be running as a + subprocess with stdin not attached to a tty, and thus unable to query + for a password. fetchmail-5.3.0 (Tue Feb 22 08:53:31 PST 2000), 18618 lines: diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 2bf214a3..0188a0de 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -1819,7 +1819,10 @@ mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. .IP 3 The user authentication step failed. This usually means that a bad -user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. +user-id, password, or APOP id was specified. Or it may mean that you +tried to run fetchmail under circumstances where it did not have +standard input attached to a terminal and could not prompt for a +missing password. .IP 4 Some sort of fatal protocol error was detected. .IP 5 -- cgit v1.2.3