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

[Neal Becker]

Jim Bevier wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hillegas" <bobhillegas at houston.rr.com>
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:12 PM
> Subject: Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....
> 
> What I did was download the source (yumdownloader -source fetchmail) and
> modify the source to comment out the message.  Then compile it and
> install.
> I then added an entry to cron as root and run it every 6 minutes.  No
> message to log and it works fine.  Not sure why they added the message
> sometime during FC5.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
Why run as root?

I use this in /etc/rc.local:
 su - nbecker -c 'fetchmail -d 60'