On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:25:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Those are not the only choices. I run Fetchmail as an unprivileged user > > named "mailagent" which then passes the mail to Mailagent (could just as > > well be Procmail) for local sorting and delivery. > > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > It appears that the fetchmail init script does something like this > > already. At least on my mail server, it is running as user "103". > > Yes, it appears that my method (which I developed before Fetchmail had a > daemon mode (initial version, before Fetchmail existed)) is obsolete. > > > I'm not sure why this user doesn't have a name, but regardless, it's not > > a root process. > > 103 should be the user "fetchmail". yeah. I need to find out why `ps aux` shows fetchmail run by user '103' and exim run by user '101' instead of by their names... A
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