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
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rc.local
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#!/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
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fetchmail-start
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#!/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?
Thanks - jon
The perms on /home/jonrysh/.fetchmailrc need to be 600, with ownership
given to johrysh:johnrysh
You could also start it without the su by adding it to your own crontab:
@reboot sleep 30 & fetchmail
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-- Steve