Fedora Core 6 Test Update: fetchmail-6.3.6-2.fc6

[Miloslav Trmač]

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-139
2007-01-26
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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.

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Update Information:

If no new regressions are reported, this update will be
pushed final on Jan 26.
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* Mon Jan 22 2007 Miloslav Trmac  - 6.3.6-2
- Let KPOP use PASS again
  Resolves: #223661
* Sat Jan  6 2007 Miloslav Trmac  - 6.3.6-1
- Update to fetchmail-6.3.6 (CVE-2006-5867, CVE-2006-5974)
* Wed Nov  1 2006 Miloslav Trmac  - 6.3.5-1
- Update to fetchmail-6.3.5
- Fix some rpmlint warnings

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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/.
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Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

[Bob Hillegas]

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

Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

[Andrew Parker]

> 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).

Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Hillegas" 
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 

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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Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

[Neal Becker]

Jim Bevier wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hillegas" 
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
>
> 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'

Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Becker" 
To: 
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" 
> > To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> >
> > 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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