Re: [fetchmail-users] Question about mailing lists, now running as unprivile

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

Keep the traffic on the list.

On 2/9/07, Andrew N. Gray <an...@gr...> wrote:
> thanks for the info about the unprivileged user.
>
> I am running the service as a daemon on gentoo,  is there are
> preferred way to start fetchmail as an unprivileged user using the
> init.d/fetchmail script.

Well, that's a Gentoo issue, not a Fetchmail one :)

However, a few seconds on the Gentoo site suggest you need to look at
"start-stop-daemon".  The option is probably going to be "--user
<myuser>".

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Rob MacGregor
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