RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Yes, true...
I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir..
It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me!)
Stupid cron keeps emailing me saying fetchmail said:
Warning: Running as root is discouraged
Every 5 flipping minutes....
Am trying to find a way of turning it's user-checking off. :-)
This didn't happen before....Kernels and packages are getting pickier! :-)
Lloyd Bayley
Berowra PC Services
P.O. Box 270
Berowra Heights NSW 2082
Ph: (02) 9456-0292
Mob: 0411-541-007
Email: lloyd@berowrapc.com
Web: www.berowrapc.com
-----Original Message-----
From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:clive@clivemenzies.co.uk]
Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote:
> I slept on it and found the problem this morning.
> For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v'
took
> out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life.
>
> I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all
> along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up.
>
> Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
Hehe :)
Glad you sorted it out.
FWIW I run fetchmail as a daemon (no cron); you set the interval in
/etc/fetchmailrc. For a single user, it's probably not worth doing but
if you're collecting mail for multiple users, it saves configuring
individual .fetchmailrc files.
Regards
Clive
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