Re: [fetchmail-users] How to avoid these annoying reports

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 8/19/07, Anne Wilson <can...@go...> wrote:
> Hi, Rob.  I've upgraded now, but I've not been able to run as a daemon.  I
> seem to have a path problem.
>
> fetchmail --daemon 300
> fetchmail: cannot open /home/anne/~/fetchmail.log: No such file or directory
> fetchmail: fetchmail: Cannot detach into background. Aborting.
>
> This when commanding as user.  I did wonder if root needed to start it, but I
> guess if that's so I'll have to feed it the user path somehow.
>
> Can you help, please?

Looks like a typo somewhere in your config file.  What does your
.fetchmailrc file contain?

I'm guessing a line like:

 logfile ~/fetchmail.log

Try "logfile /home/anne/fetchmail.log" instead.

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