[Scottish] fetchmail

[Allan Bruce]

> fetchmail wont fetch the emails from one of my accounts unless it is run
as
> a daemon (I tried using the -a option and putting it in the crontab but it
> didnt work).  My question is,

fetchmail doesnt work as a daemon either :o( I get this error message

1 message (1 seen) for allan at mavis.erg.abdn.ac.uk (1494 octets).
skipping message allan@mavis.erg.abdn.ac.uk:1 (978 octets) not flushed
[allan@Kes allan]$

if I type "fetchmail -a" manually, it works but the entry in the crontab
doesnt work.
The crontab entry looks like

0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28
,29,
30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,5
5,56
,57,58,59 * * * * allan "/usr/bin/fetchmail -a"

any ideas?
Thanks
Allan