Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:37:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > > > > OK, I tried it. It seems to still not want to run. > > Here is what I did: > > 1. Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and > > changed the > > group and owner for them to "mail" > > /etc/ppp is not readable by user mail, at least not on my potato box: >
Yeah. That was the problem. Thanks. I fixed it with the following: Edit the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script to look like: su - -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900 -t 90 --silent --syslog --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmail --idfile /var/spool/mail/.fetchids' mail Edit the /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/fetchmail-down script to look like: su - -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail --quit' mail Then touch /var/spool/mail/.fetchids chown mail /var/spool/mail/.fetchids cp /root/.fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmail user mail does own the /var/spool/mail directory and I made the owner and group for /etc/fetchmail "mail" And most importantly, it works. Thanks to all who helped me learn something here. Regards. Mark.
