On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:54:27PM +0200, Laurent CREPET wrote:
I got the same kind of problem using 5.9.2 under RH 7.1 (rpms downloaded
from http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/).
I was using:
fetchmail --quit -all -d 900 -L .fetchmail.log
and it seems working with all version...
This morning, I stopped all fetchmail daemons... upgraded with 5.9.2
rpms, and re-run my fetchmail daemons before restarting my wife's one.
So I got:
[lct(_at_)tealc lct]$ fetchmail --quit -all -d 900 -L .fetchmail.log
fetchmail: invalid option -- -
String 'l' is not a valid number string.
usage: fetchmail [options] [server ...]
Options are as follows:
I received the same error:
bradl(_at_)bellicha:~> fetchmail --quit
fetchmail: invalid option -- -
usage: fetchmail [options] [server ...]
However...
bradl(_at_)bellicha:~> fetchmail -quit
fetchmail: background fetchmail at 24133 killed.
bradl(_at_)bellicha:~>
as ESR said, it's got to be something with getopt, and hopefully will
be fixed in the next release.
BL.
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