On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 11:18:33PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Roger Price (HE12026-08-17): > > 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. > > The fact that it says ~ and ~ is essentially meaningless for a daemon > should have been an indication.
I don't even understand what you mean there. What do you understand by "a daemon"? This can have lots of meanings (detached from the TTY? Running under a "system user", whatever that means?). One of those may be "the user has no home directory", but this criterion fails for many users with UID<1000 (which is just a convention itself around here). Besides, I gues the program looks itself for the users home, and the ~/ notation in the man page is just a shorthand (usually it's the shell which expands that). Cheers -- t
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