more on fetchmail/webmin problem

[cheewilly]

I do have sendmail running as my pop 3 server. My .fetchmailrc file has fetchmail set to poll the server every 600 seconds. But, when I go into webmin, fetchmail icon, and click on 'check all servers' that's when I get the message that another instance of fetchmail is running. My user .fetchmailrc file is set to poll the server I'm running POP3 on, but it's also the same server fetchmail is installed on. I've tried adding a command to the .fetchmailrc file that will kill the existing daemon on login, which I assumed would allow a new daemon process to start and query my server right then. This seems to work occasionally, in that I don't get the error message, but I still don't pull any mail from the server, even though I know that POP3 is running.

thanks for your response...any other suggestions would be highly appreciated.