On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, nwe wrote:
> On 8/17/26 3:24 AM, Roger Price wrote:
>
> > root@titan ~ journalctl -S 2026-08-1508:28:15 | grep -e 'fetchmail.*start'
>
> You run fetchmail as root?
I ran the command journalctl as root, but the fetchmail daemon runs as user
fetchmail :
rprice@titan ~ ps -ef | grep fetchmail
fetchma+ 295717 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:02:24 /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc
--pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog
> Possibly this explains the unexpected behavior?
The unexpected behaviour was because I did not initially understand that Debian
13 automatically includes a -f option to specify a non-default name for the
~/.fetchmailrc run control file.
Roger
