[Fetchmail-users] preconnect syntax error

[Chris <cpo...@em...>]

I have this line in my .fetchmailrc:

preconnect "/usr/sbin/logrotate -s /home/chris/.logrotate.status
/home/chris/.logrotate.conf"

It just calls logrotate which uses the logrotate.conf file  in /home to
compress the fetchmail log and procmail log on a monthly basis. I keep
getting this error when starting fetchmail:

fetchmail --nokeep --nosyslog --logfile /home/chris/fetchmaillog --uidl 
-m procmail
fetchmail:/home/chris/.fetchmailrc:10: syntax error at preconnect

Here's the logrotate.conf file I'm using:

# Global options
# Old versions of log files are compressed with gzip by default.
compress
# Log files are rotated the first time logrotate is run in a month
monthly
# Log files are rotated 12 times before being removed (just keep one
year of history)
rotate=12
# Archive old versions of log files adding a daily extension like
YYYYMMDD instead of simply adding a number.
dateext
# If the log file is missing, go on to the next one without issuing an
error message.
missingok

# Log files to rotate
/home/chris/fetchmaillog { }
/home/chris/procmaillog { }

I'm sure it's something I'm easily overlooking but can't figure it out.

Version info - release 6.3.26+GSS+NTLM+SDPS+SSL-SSLv3+NLS+KRB5.

Chris

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