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[fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] Allow to specify pid dir independent of home dir

[Héctor G. <he...@de...>]

Hi,

This patch would allow to specify the pid dir independent of the home
dir.
This would allow to have fetchmail-UIDL-cache file on /var/lib/fetchmail
and pid file on /var/run/fetchmail

This is needed when you run a global fetchmail with non-root user (as we
do on Debian)

So far this patch allows to specify pid dir with env var FETCHMAILPIDDIR

Regards,

Héctor

Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] Allow to specify pid dir independent of home dir

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Héctor García <he...@de...> writes:

> This patch would allow to specify the pid dir independent of the home
> dir.
> This would allow to have fetchmail-UIDL-cache file on /var/lib/fetchmail
> and pid file on /var/run/fetchmail
>
> This is needed when you run a global fetchmail with non-root user (as we
> do on Debian)
>
> So far this patch allows to specify pid dir with env var FETCHMAILPIDDIR

This patch lacks documentation (fetchmail.man), and is not needed.

You can use FETCHMAILHOME and then override the UIDL file location with
--idfile /var/lib/fetchmail/foo-uids.

Remember that the user running fetchmail needs write access
(create/rename files) to the directory.

I'll reconsider it for 6.4.0 (it's on my TODO),
but don't rely on it being applied.

-- 
Matthias Andree

Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] Allow to specify pid dir independent of home dir

[Héctor G. <he...@de...>]

El mar, 14-03-2006 a las 00:09 +0100, Matthias Andree escribió:
> This patch lacks documentation (fetchmail.man), and is not needed.
> 
I'll write the docu if there is any chance to integrate this change.

> You can use FETCHMAILHOME and then override the UIDL file location with
> --idfile /var/lib/fetchmail/foo-uids.
> 
The problem still is that if I want to place the pid
on /var/run/fetchmail I have to tell fetchmail that fetchmail's home is
there.
The problem on doing this, is that I cannot have a .ssh dir on my
fetchmail home with ssh keys, since the dirs at /var/run/fetchmail are
cleaned on every boot.
So far we fix it placing fetchmail's home at /var/lib/fetchmail but then
we have a problem when the machines dies and don't clean the .pid file.

> Remember that the user running fetchmail needs write access
> (create/rename files) to the directory.
> 
> I'll reconsider it for 6.4.0 (it's on my TODO),
> but don't rely on it being applied.
> 
If there is a chance, I'll go into write documentation and maybe
converting it also into a command line option.

Regards,

Héctor

Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] Allow to specify pid dir independent of home dir

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Héctor García wrote:

> El mar, 14-03-2006 a las 00:09 +0100, Matthias Andree escribió:
> > This patch lacks documentation (fetchmail.man), and is not needed.
> > 
> I'll write the docu if there is any chance to integrate this change.

If it's a command line and rcfile option there is.

> If there is a chance, I'll go into write documentation and maybe
> converting it also into a command line option.

I'd rather use that (and a rcfile option).
Users are often confused by environment variables.

-- 
Matthias Andree