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

[Jason S. <jas...@gm...>]

Yes; I've logged in as a test user I've created as well as myself. The
cron jobs always get created as the root user.

On 10/22/05, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> 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 corre=
ct 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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