Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 23:10:43 UTC 2007
Jim Bevier wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hillegas" <bobhillegas at houston.rr.com>
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> 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'
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