RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-09 Thread Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out

RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
2006 2:37 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem But that's just it. Running fetchmail as root is a security risk. There's no reason to run it as root, since it works well from a user account. On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:49 +1000, Lloyd Bayley

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 11:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 09 April 2006 02:54, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:40 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, I realise that...been thinking of it but when I change the cron job to run as another user, that user

minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
Greetings All. Have a bit of a drama. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, its fine. When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following: fetchmail: can't find a

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Have a bit of a drama.. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, it's fine. When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi, On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:52:05PM +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Greetings All. Have a bit of a drama.. Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and fetchmail is running as a cron job. When I run it manually, it's fine.

RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:01 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Have a bit of a drama.. Have done

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread 'Clive Menzies'
On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps

RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem

RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
(major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life. I haven't touched

RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services
@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:05 +1000, Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: Yes, true... I just run the thing as root and have a .fetchmailrc file in the /root dir.. It collects mail for all users in the one file (as all 2 users are me

Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
PROTECTED] Web:www.berowrapc.com -Original Message- From: 'Clive Menzies' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 10:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept

RE: minor (major) fetchmail problem

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Johnson
:58 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (09/04/06 08:40), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out