Re: Still can't get fetchmail to run as user "mail"

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Devin
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Does user mail have 'x' permissions to the /etc/ppp directory? > > I'd suggest you use /var/spool/mail to place .fetchids and /etc/fetchmail as > the place for the config though (notice that /etc/fetchmailrc will trigger > the initscripts, while /etc/fetchmail will not

Re: Still can't get fetchmail to run as user "mail"

2001-03-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Mark Devin wrote: > Is there some problem with what I have done? Does user mail have 'x' permissions to the /etc/ppp directory? I'd suggest you use /var/spool/mail to place .fetchids and /etc/fetchmail as the place for the config though (notice that /etc/fetchmailrc will trig

Still can't get fetchmail to run as user "mail"

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Devin
OK I tried making my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script as follows: #!/bin/sh su - -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --fetchmailrc /etc/ppp/.fetchmailrc --idfile /etc/ppp/.fetchids' mail Here is the error I get when trying to run this script as user root: # ./fetchmail-up fetchmail: couldn't time-check the