Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

Andrew Parker andrewparker at bigfoot.com
Sat Jun 9 04:10:36 UTC 2007


> OK so I'd like to run my crontab process as something other than root, say fetchmail. I set the fetchmailrc files to be owned by fetchmail, I run all my fetchmail invocations in crontab as fetchmail, and I get:
> //.fetchmail.pid: Permission denied
> fetchmail: lock creation failed
>
> I look at /var/run and see that group root has rw rights to it, so I add group root as additional group to fetchmail.
>
> Same results.
>
> QUESTION: What directory is fetchmail attempting to create fetchmail.pid?

Its in your home directory (one user running fetchmail shouldn't
prevent another running it at the same time).




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