--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2007-139 2007-01-26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 6 Name : fetchmail Version : 6.3.6 Release : 2.fc6 Summary : A remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility Description : Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended for use over on-demand TCP/IP links, like SLIP or PPP connections. Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6, and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through SMTP so you can read it through your favorite mail client.
Install fetchmail if you need to retrieve mail over SLIP or PPP connections.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
If no new regressions are reported, this update will be pushed final on Jan 26. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mon Jan 22 2007 Miloslav Trmac mitr@redhat.com - 6.3.6-2 - Let KPOP use PASS again Resolves: #223661 * Sat Jan 6 2007 Miloslav Trmac mitr@redhat.com - 6.3.6-1 - Update to fetchmail-6.3.6 (CVE-2006-5867, CVE-2006-5974) * Wed Nov 1 2006 Miloslav Trmac mitr@redhat.com - 6.3.5-1 - Update to fetchmail-6.3.5 - Fix some rpmlint warnings
--------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/
b8f74cec57bde68e7f1634c56312d1dce69cdc74 SRPMS/fetchmail-6.3.6-2.fc6.src.rpm b8f74cec57bde68e7f1634c56312d1dce69cdc74 noarch/fetchmail-6.3.6-2.fc6.src.rpm 2ec52c8143fac13c4a48b5a86888553c1435b825 ppc/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.3.6-2.fc6.ppc.rpm f040bb9d95e1dee8af940ff6b814e94168bf7adf ppc/fetchmail-6.3.6-2.fc6.ppc.rpm 6192852eeeb2c94731f16de776cdd330038b40f1 x86_64/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.3.6-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm 9e88f7accb32fe5540de57f68ca94e0fe86b9df5 x86_64/fetchmail-6.3.6-2.fc6.x86_64.rpm 9be8df7c31a23b7fc0b22ef1574427e0b4374f8d i386/debug/fetchmail-debuginfo-6.3.6-2.fc6.i386.rpm 0b0a973850bd3efc05a66778800577050408550e i386/fetchmail-6.3.6-2.fc6.i386.rpm
This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I see email on this going back 2 years.
OK so I'd like to run my crontab process as something other than root, say fetchmail. I set the fetchmailrc files to be owned by fetchmail, I run all my fetchmail invocations in crontab as fetchmail, and I get: //.fetchmail.pid: Permission denied fetchmail: lock creation failed
I look at /var/run and see that group root has rw rights to it, so I add group root as additional group to fetchmail.
Same results.
QUESTION: What directory is fetchmail attempting to create fetchmail.pid?
Thanks, BobH
OK so I'd like to run my crontab process as something other than root, say fetchmail. I set the fetchmailrc files to be owned by fetchmail, I run all my fetchmail invocations in crontab as fetchmail, and I get: //.fetchmail.pid: Permission denied fetchmail: lock creation failed
I look at /var/run and see that group root has rw rights to it, so I add group root as additional group to fetchmail.
Same results.
QUESTION: What directory is fetchmail attempting to create fetchmail.pid?
Its in your home directory (one user running fetchmail shouldn't prevent another running it at the same time).
----- 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
I see email on this going back 2 years.
OK so I'd like to run my crontab process as something other than root, say fetchmail. I set the fetchmailrc files to be owned by fetchmail, I run all my fetchmail invocations in crontab as fetchmail, and I get: //.fetchmail.pid: Permission denied fetchmail: lock creation failed
I look at /var/run and see that group root has rw rights to it, so I add group root as additional group to fetchmail.
Same results. QUESTION: What directory is fetchmail attempting to create fetchmail.pid?
Thanks, BobH
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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'
----- 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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