Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

[Sergio Augusto Vladisauskis]

My startup script and configuration.
I make it.

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:01:19 -0400, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at 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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# Customized settings for fetchmail

# Define polling interval in seconds
POLL=180

# User to start daemon
USER="fetchmail"