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How do I Increase the log level of Fetchmail?

This seems stupidly easy but I can't find the directive and file I need anywhere on-line.

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From fetchmail(1) (man 1 fetchmail):

Increasing verbosity of output:

   -v | --verbose
          Verbose mode.  All control messages passed between fetchmail and  the
          mailserver  are echoed to stdout.  Overrides --silent.  Doubling this
          option (-v -v) causes extra diagnostic information to be printed.

About debugging to syslog:

   The  --syslog option (keyword: set syslog) allows you to redirect status and
   error messages emitted to the syslog(3) system daemon  if  available.   Mes-
   sages are logged with an id of fetchmail, the facility LOG_MAIL, and priori-
   ties LOG_ERR, LOG_ALERT or LOG_INFO.  This option is  intended  for  logging
   status  and  error  messages which indicate the status of the daemon and the
   results while fetching mail from the server(s).  Error messages for  command
   line  options and parsing the .fetchmailrc file are still written to stderr,
   or to the specified log file.  The --nosyslog option turns off use  of  sys-
   log(3),  assuming  it’s turned on in the ~/.fetchmailrc file, or that the -L
   or --logfile <file> option was used.

Hope that helps!

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ooops, I think I forgot to mention that I'm running it as a daemon not from the command line. I'm getting logs in mail.info, but its not detailed enough. – Nick Feb 2 at 19:42
Nick, it sounds like the --syslog option is working, but your syslog daemon is only logging high level messages (as expected). How to adjust this varies by what syslogging daemon you use. Can you get the output of ps aux|grep syslog and let me know the name of the process? Could be syslogd rsyslogd or other similiar names. – Kyle Smith Feb 3 at 14:55
The process is "syslogd". (/sbin/syslogd) – Nick Feb 3 at 17:09
For debugging, you should be able to tack a line into /etc/syslog.conf, like: mail.* /var/log/fetchmail_debug – Kyle Smith Feb 3 at 18:00
There's a line already that says "mail.* -/var/log/mail.log". Do I replace that or add to it? – Nick Feb 5 at 1:54
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