Re: [webmin-l] Fetchmail Module - No Mailservers Have Been Specified

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

I would say that the fact that the cron job is run as root is the cause
of the problem .. however, on my system it is always created as the correct user.
I presume that you logged into Usermin as some non-root user, went to the Fetchmail
module and enabled scheduled checking? If you login as root, it will set up a Cron
job that one check root's Fetchmail config.

 - Jamie

On 22/Oct/2005 16:00 Jason Self wrote ..
> Usermin 1.170 (with Fetchmail updates applied)
> Webmin 1.240
> Mac OS X Server 10.3.9
> 
> Progress is being made. Now fetchmail is actually started
> periodically, but returns the error "no mailservers have been
> specified" and I think I know why.
> 
> Usermin appropriately creates the .fetchmailrc file in my test user's
> home directory. When configuring scheduled checking via Usermin,
> though, the cron job is created so that ~/.usermin/fetchmail/check.pl
> is run by root, and not by the individual user.
> 
> The root user doesn't have a .fetchmailrc file so fetchmail spits the
> error and bails.
> 
> I manually ran ~/.usermin/fetchmail/check.pl as the test user and it
> worked correctly. So the solution seems to be installing the cron jobs
> as the user that's running fetchmail and not root. Yes? No?
> 
> 
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