RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
Ron,
Thanks for your input!
Yes, that's how I have it....both accounts in one rc file.
I am ok with it running as root but was wanting to stop it reporting in my
mail about the warning as running as root...
I shall give what you have sent me below a try and see how I fare!
Kind Regards,
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: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:29 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
wrote:
> 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
What if you put both accounts in the same fetchmailrc file?
When I evactuated for Katrina, I kept this cox.net address,
got a secondary comcast.net address from my father in Dallas,
and put them both in ~/fetchmailrc, thus fetching from both
accounts in the same pass.
BTW, I run it out of cron:
#!/bin/sh
MAILTO=""
# m h dom mon dow command
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh
exit
The fetchmail script can be blocked while I backup my data.
$ cat /usr/local/bin/run_fetchmail.sh
#!/bin/sh
if [ -e /tmp/.backup.LOCK ]; then exit 0; fi
/usr/bin/fetchmail -S haggis $1
> 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.
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Jefferson, LA USA
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