----- Original Message ----- From: "Neal Becker" ndbecker2@gmail.com To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:10 PM Subject: Re: Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....
Jim Bevier wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hillegas" bobhillegas@houston.rr.com To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:12 PM Subject: Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....
What I did was download the source (yumdownloader -source fetchmail) and modify the source to comment out the message. Then compile it and install. I then added an entry to cron as root and run it every 6 minutes. No message to log and it works fine. Not sure why they added the message sometime during FC5.
Jim
Why run as root?
I use this in /etc/rc.local: su - nbecker -c 'fetchmail -d 60'
Running as root allows me to download about 12 different users e-mail from my ISP, deliver it to the users, and run spamassassin with custom configurations. Now if it was just one name, your suggestion would be correct, and I would not have to run as root. The alternative would be to have a crontab entry for each user, and let it work from there. One file from root is much easier.
Jim
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