Le 25 juin à 08:18:20 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment:
| Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | > Le 21 juin à 00:42:33 Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: | > | > | I want to run fetchmail as a service and I am confused about how | > this works. I | simply want to have something that will quietly | > fetch and deliver mail to | maildirs to users' home directories, but | > that can also be disabled easily | when I need that bit of extra | > performance for something. | > | > To enable fetchmail as demon: | > # /etc/init.d/fetchmail start | > | > To have fetchmail start automatically at boot: | > # rc-update add fetchmail default | > | > To suspend fetchmail: | > # /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop | > | I assume that fetchmail will first look at | > /etc/fetchmailrc. Will it then look | at each user's | > $HOME/.fetchmailrc? | > | > Yes | > | > | > | > | If so, can I assume that it will deal with each user's .procmailrc suid | > | that user? | > | > | > | > Yes; have a look at the fetchmail manual (-mda command) | > | > regards | > | > | When I tried it, this didn't seem to work for me. I tried using an | empty /etc/fetchmailrc because I wanted fetchmail to go straight to | the ~/.fetchmailrc's, but it complained that no server was specified. There is this option in /etc/init.d/fetchmail which says that the config file is /etc/fetchmailrc: -f /etc/fetchmailrc (it is in the middle of the file); but if you remove it I think only /root/.fetchmailrc would be searched, and I guess you don't have it and it's not your problem. > | I'm not panicked about this any more because I have decided to use | the relatively painless webmin to configure the ~/.fetchmailrc's | and | schedule cron jobs. even though it isn't exactly what I wanted. That's a good solution, I don't think running fetchmail as a daemon is superior, it's just more straightforward for a system where a centralized fetchmailrc is possible. | That said, if anyone knows what I should have done to get the fetchmail | service to use the ~/.fetchmailrc's rather than /etc/fetchmailrc I would | appreciate it. Well, you could imagine a cron job to copy the content of all ~/.fetchmailrc in /etc/fetchmailrc (cat would do that), say every two hours, and run fetchmail as daemon... but is worth it? regards -- Jean Magnan de Bornier | Cours Victor Hugo e-mots: jean at bornier.net | 13980 Alleins France T 08 70 39 34 03 | P 06 09 17 35 87 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
