Re: Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts
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?
>
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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