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["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, 2010-01-07 at 22:58 +0100, Wolfgang Mueller wrote:

> I recently upgraded one of my computers from 10.1 to 11.2.
> Under 10.1, root was able to start the fetchmail daemon,
> which read its information from /etc/fetchmailrc.
>
> But now, under 11.2, any attempt to start the fetchmail
> daemon is rejected with this message:
>
> ***************************************************************
> Starting fetchmail. File /etc/fetchmailrc must be owned by you.
> startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/fetchmail: 6
> ***************************************************************
>
> Ok, "/etc/fetchmailrc must be owned by you", i.e. by root.
> As under 10.1, listing fetchmailrc gives:
>
> *******************************************************
> rw------- 1 root root 804 Jan 7 00:19 /etc/fetchmailrc
> *******************************************************
>
> But, obviously, that is not enough for getting accepted by the
> new fetchmail daemon running under 11.2.
>
> What else can I do?

Read the startup script... ;-)


Time ago, fetchmail started complaining that it should not be run by root. 
Thus, the chaps at Suse have modified the script so that it runs under 
another user.

The "/etc/init.d/fetchmail" contains:

FETCHMAIL_USER="fetchmail"

and a few more settings. I guess that the file has to be owned by that 
user now. It is interesting that the upgrade process didn't take care of 
that.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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