Re: Stupid question
It generally doesn't matter: so long as you are able to dial up then the other
processes take care of themselves. If you use pppconfig to set up the
configuration, and remember to add your own account to the configuration then
once you dial up, a mail send process will be run, and others: the details are
in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ Check this for info. You should have one in here for exim
(if you use it), and you can add anything you want: I've added a script to run
fetchmail. As it is run as a root process, make sure that the copy of
.fetchmailrc is in /home/root/ and is owned and grouped by root with mods of
0644. You might want to try changing the ownership of the files in
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ - you could have a fetchmail script owned by each user on
the system, then only their script would be run when they dial up (though I'm
not sure if this will work - try it!)
Hope this helps,
Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:21:02PM +0100, Gary Jones wrote:
> Okay, stupid question time.
>
> What is the best way of connecting to the 'net? I don't mean the
> mechanicals, which connection type to use, that sort of thing, but
> rather which account(s) should do so. Preferably I don't want to
> connect as root, but some things (e.g. collecting mail or news) might
> be better done as root or might /need/ to be done as root, or at
> least some specific user with the right permissions which might be
> different for the different tasks. What's the best thing to do? I've
> never really seen a decent discussion about this, since I started
> fiddling about with Linux (on and off, about 2 years).
>
>
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