My startup script and configuration.
I make it.
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:01:19 -0400, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On 03/19/2010 08:53 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:39 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:08 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:02 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/19/2010 02:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a little script to start fetchmail, which is activated in
>>>>> rc.local. It runs perfectly when started from a root login; but it
>>>>> fails when started from rc.local.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the info:
>>>>> =========================== Scripts Start
===========================
>>>>> $ more rc.local fetchmail-start
>>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>>> rc.local
>>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>> #
>>>>> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init
>>>>> scripts.
>>>>> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you
>>>>> don't
>>>>> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> # Fork a script that will start fetchmail for jonrysh in a
>>>>> few seconds
>>>>> /etc/rc.d/fetchmail-start
>>>>>
>>>>> touch /var/lock/subsys/local
>>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>>> fetchmail-start
>>>>> ::::::::::::::
>>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>> #
>>>>> # Start fetchmail for jonrysh
>>>>>
>>>>> su jonrysh -c 'sleep 5; fetchmail'
>>>>>
>>>>> =========================== Messages Start
>>>>> ===========================
>>>>> Fetchmail emits the following error message and fails:
>>>>> fetchmail: open: /home/jonrysh/.fetchmailrc: Permission
>>>>> denied
>>>>>
>>>>> What's happening? How can it be fixed?
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> The perms on /home/jonrysh/.fetchmailrc need to be 600, with
ownership
>>>> given to jonrysh:jonrysh
>>>>
>>> Everything is as you recommend. Note that the scheme works when
>>> invoked
>>> from a command window running a shell as root, but not from the init
>>> script.
>>>
>>>
>>>> You could also start it without the su by adding it to your own
>>>> crontab:
>>>> @reboot sleep 30& fetchmail
>>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll try this. But I'd still like to know what's the
reason
>>> for
>>> the permission failure when running out of rc.local . SELinux
issues?
>>>
>>>
>> ----
>> this works for me (in rc.local)...
>>
>> /bin/su - craig -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail'&
>>
> I tried it, and now things are worse than before. The startup script
> now reads:
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Start fetchmail for jonrysh
>
> su - jonrysh -c 'sleep 5; fetchmail'
>
> Now there's an additional error in boot.log:
> ...
> Starting atd: [
> OK ]
> Error opening display!
> fetchmail: open: /home/jonrysh/.fetchmailrc: Permission denied
>
> The display did actually start OK after a short delay. It's a mystery
> to me.
>
> Thanks to all - jon
>
>
>
>
>
Check to see if there are SELinux AVC messages in
/var/log/audit/audit.log
# grep fetchmail /var/log/audit/audit.log
Also instead of using su, use runuser (Same thing except runuser does
not use the pam stack.)
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