RE: some fetchmail questions

[Hugo Rabson <hugo rabson zetnet co uk>]

Try this:-

#!/bin/sh

for username in `ls /home`
do
    r=`su - $username -c true &> /dev/null`
    if [ "$?" -eq "0" ] && [ -e "/home/$username/.fetchmailrc" ] ; then
        su - $username -c $scriptname
    fi
done          



Hugo


On 24-Dec-98 Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was using fetchmail as root...for some time.
> 
> But now I have some users which want their mail to be polled from
> different pop
> servers.
> How to do it?
> 
> Do I have to create a .fetchmailrc in each user's home directory?
> What would I put into my ip-up.local and ip.down, in order to get each
> user's
> mail downloaded when connecting to the internet via modem? Do I have to
> launch
> fetchmail for each user? How to kill each user's fetchmail in ip-down?
> 
> I remember that I need to use su in ip-up.local for each user....bu I
> think,
> that my line is misspelled somehow. Do I have to use "     " in the line?
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jacek
> 
> 
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Date: 01-Jan-99         Time: 22:53:46
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