Bug#348302: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#348302: service does not start, START_DAEMON is missing

[Nico Golde]

Hallo Eduard,

* Eduard Bloch <blade at debian.org> [2006-01-16 10:13]:
> after upgrading fetchmail to the recent version, it does no longer
> start and tells me to "Edit /etc/default/fetchmailrc". I did, but could
> not find the problem cause. I have changed SERVICE= to true, it still
> did not work. Now I looked at the init script and see that it expected
> START_DAEMON=yes somewhere... but WTF is going on? IIRC I have choosen
> to overwrite the file when dpkg has asked me but that cannot explain the
> problem.

We introduced a variable in default file for fetchmail in 
the latest verstion. START_DAEMON. If I understand you 
correctly you dont have this variable in your file? There 
was/is a bug in the script generating the file, will be 
hopefully fixed with -4 revision of the package.
Regards Nico
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