Hmm, Sylpheed doesn't seem to want to include your original post in the reply, so apologies if this is a little disjointed. Since the /etc/pcmcia/network script starts as root, it would be a minor change to just add a 'su fetchmail -c <start-fetchmail-command>' instead of starting fetchmail as root outright? Does this return to a normal root shell for the rest of the network script? AFAIK starting fetchmail is the last thing I do in my pcmcia script, so it would not hurt either way, but I'm just curious. I *really* want fetchmail to run only when the pcmcia is plugged in, otherwise it will overrun my syslog with whining about not finding mailservers, and I have logcheck running, so those whines will clog up my inbox (Thank $DEITY for filters).
Mart
