Topic: Fetchmail problem with SME Server V5

[Laurence Griffiths]

I upgraded from e-smith 4.1.2 to SME Server V5 on Friday. Now I get loads of the following messages. What do they mean and how do I stop them?

From: "Cron Daemon"
To:
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:20 PM
Subject: Cron /etc/startmail


fetchmail: couldn't time-check the run-control file
fetchmail: lock creation failed.

Thanks

Laurence Griffiths

[Laurence Griffiths]

I forgot to mention.... I am using multi-drop email retrieval.

[Dan Brown]

I've seen the problem reported a few times, but I don't remember seeing a solution..I don't know for sure, but I have a guess.  At some point between fetchmail 5.5.0 (which shipped with e-smith 4.1.2) and fetchmail 5.7.4 (which ships with SME v5), fetchmail was changed to check whether the .fetchmailrc file had been changed since the last poll.  This would remove the requirement of stopping and restarting fetchmail when changes were made.

This is well and good, except that e-smith doesn't use a .fetchmailrc file, and I'm wondering if the lack of that file could be confusing fetchmail.  Try doing "touch /root/.fetchmailrc" and see if that helps.

[Laurence Griffiths]

Thanks! I'll give that a try in about 3 hours time when I next manage to get my paws on that server.

[Laurence Griffiths]

No joy on that, I'm afraid! I tried entering "touch /root/.fetchmailrc" and nothing happened.

I tried "/etc/fetchmail" and nothing happened too. So in desperation, I tried "/etc/startmail" and got the same error message that I had originally.

Any further suggestions?

[Robert Field]

I had the same problem as Laurence, so I followed his lead with the same results but with an added problem.

I now have no web services. When trying to reach the primary home page, I get no response from the server.

Any thoughts?

[Robert Field]

restarting httpd fixed problem but still no fetchmail.

[Charlie Brady]

Unfortunately there are a number of problems with fetchmail mail collection in SME V5. An update to correct these problems will be available soon.

Regards

Charlie

[Jean-Francois Zahnen]

I have the same problem when using multidrop

have another problem too, my e-smith manager navigation frame is only available when connection to :980 port, if I try connecting with the path /e-smith-manager I have an error 404 (not found)

Jean-François

[Rich Lafferty]

This and other critical issues are fixed in SME Server Update 2. See

   http://www.e-smith.org/release/5.0/status/

  -Rich