On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 10:28:17PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> 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 --syslogRight, there's it. > > 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. It is being invoked that way. I see now. Cheers -- t
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