[leafnode-list] Re: fetchmail, fetchnews can't get thru router

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Aug 5 11:24:56 CEST 2008


clemens fischer <ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> writes:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:27:27 +0200 Christian Ebert wrote:
>
>> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> what does "status=2 (SOCKET)" mean? is this from errno.h or fetchmail
> specific? did you recompile these programs properly after an update or
> were they binary packages? it seems fetchnews is from june 2008, the
> kernel from october 2007, other than that i don't see this info.

Fetchmail's command line exit status (as per its man page) if not run in
daemon mode - socket error (like server dropping the connection, stuff
like that).

Since this is fetchmail-specific, I've set replies to be sent to me
directly, rather than to the list.

-- 
Matthias Andree



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