Fetchmail and DSL link

[Cristiano Paris]

Bob Nielsen wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:42:54AM +0100, Cristiano Paris wrote:
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>>scoon wrote:
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>>>Hey there, 
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>>>Check man fetchmail or here http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
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>>I've checked both the man page and URL you mentioned but didn't find 
>>anything about the fetchmail and resolvconf interaction...
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>You might try editing the script to remove the resolvconf part and see
>if it works that way:
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>#if [ -x /etc/init.d/fetchmail -a ! -x /sbin/resolvconf ]; then
>#        /etc/init.d/fetchmail start
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>if [ -x /etc/init.d/fetchmail -a ]; then
>        /etc/init.d/fetchmail start
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>I don't see any inherent reason why fetchmail would be messed up by
>resolvconf (my DSL uses bridging rather than PPP, so I can't run any
>tests).  Basically what you want the script to do is disable fetchmail
>unless you have an internet connection.
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That's the point, but I was interested in the rationale, since I can't 
see any problem using resolvconf with fetchmail... maybe I should ask to 
the package mantainer...

Thank you,

Cristiano