Re: Setting up a cron for fetchmail
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:53:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> Anyone care to comment on the security issues of running fetchmail as
> root?
>
I've never needed to. I run fetchmail out-of-the-box as a daemon with
the fechmailrc in /etc (no-per-user fetchmail). It just works.
What errors do you get? Send us your fetchmailrc (with the password and
other sensitive things XXX'd out. Also, ensure that
/etc/default/fetchmail has START_DAEMON=yes.
Doug.
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