What happens at 6:30 am (besides that fetchmail seems to crash)?

[Tom Metro]

Laura Conrad wrote:
> I've been having to restart fetchmail every morning on my ubuntu Edgy
> system.  It seems to stop running at about 6:30.
> ...
> ...it looks like that might be when logrotate is run by cron.daily.

As you discovered, 6:30 AM is about when cron.daily jobs get ran on 
Debian (and perhaps other) systems. Given the time correlation, I'd 
start by examining the scripts in /etc/cron.daily, though I agree with 
your suspicion that logrotate is a likely cause, given that it runs 
scripts to kill and restart daemons.

Do your fetchmail logs get rotated by logrotate? Perhaps the way 
logrotate is trying to restart it is no longer working.

  -Tom

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