Re: [fetchmail-users] suppress email warnings

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 1/28/07, jason farnon <jas...@ya...> wrote:
> I had a quick question that I can't find an answer to in the faq/man--how do
> I suppress email notification of the warning,
>
> fetchmail: Avertissement: appeler fetchmail avec privilèges root est
> déconseille.
>
> which is given for running fetchmail as root? I've run it in debian as a
> scheduled task with "fetchmail -sak" in my crontab. So I get a warning msg
> every 10 minutes. Maybe the answer to this question will answer my next
> one--any idea what I could have done to start this, I didn't think I changed
> anything relevant to my fetchmail setup when the issue started (though as
> you can see I tend to hang around as root a lot so I easily could've dont it
> inadvertantly). Thanks.

Easy, don't start it as root (newer versions of fetchmail warn about
this, future versions may simply refuse to run).

There is absolutely no need to run fetchmail as root - nothing in it
requires it.  Create an unpriviledged user and run it as that user.

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