On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:14:29PM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:08:15 -0400 > Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:59:29AM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > > > Hi Folks, i want to setting up a cron job for fetchmail that run every 1 > > > minute, but today i'am so lazy that even I can't do a man page reading, > > > any help? > > > > Ignoring the responses you are sure to receive about getmail being better > > than fetchmail, why aren't you just using fetchmail as a daemon? Look in > > /etc/default/fetchmail > > Well, I use to be get getmail running but with fetchmail everything > seems awesome, so why change?, yeah I run fetchmail as a daemon with > fetchmail -vvv an a properly configured .fetchmailrc but when i try to > boot up fetchmail within a rc script this won't start, so a cron job > seems the perfect way to me right now. I do this in /etc/rc.local fetchmail -d 300 -f /root/.fetchmailrc with a global .fetchmailrc in /root. this allows me to get mail for all my users every 5 minutes. I simply ignore the warning about how bad it is to run fetchmail as root. I suppose I could wrap it in some setuid script, but that's a bother. Anyone care to comment on the security issues of running fetchmail as root? A
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