Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:02:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <20000612200220.A26984@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <00061109174400.00285@rknebel.uplink.net>; from rknebel@uplink.net on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 09:14:16AM -0400 References: <00061109174400.00285@rknebel.uplink.net>
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On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 09:14:16AM -0400, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run fetchmail as root for multiple users. I thought > I could put the fetchmailrc in the root directory and the command > to start the daemon in my rc.local. This can be done, I'm using it to fetch the mailboxes of a couple of people that connect through ssh on my home box while I'm online to read their email and chat with me when they feel that IRC is not enough. > On boot up I keep getting the message mailserver not specified. If I > log in as root and issue the command fetchmail -d 30 everything works > fine. When you do this, then fetchmail already knows a lot about your environment, who you have logged in as, etc. The problem is not with fetchmail, or rc.local. See below: > I though that the fetchmail in rc.local would look to the root > directory for the .fetchmailrc file? It could be that the rc.* scripts run without the HOME environment variable havign been defined to something meaningful. Try specifying the fetchmailrc file you wish to use on the command that calls fetchmail in rc.local : # grep fetchmail /etc/rc.local /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 300 -f /root/fetchmailrc.local I hope this helps a bit. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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