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

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

Hmm .. perhaps there is a Usermin bug that only appears on OSX.
If you use the Scheduled Cron Jobs module to create a job, does it get
correctly run as the logged-in Usermin user?

 - Jamie

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 02:11, Jason Self wrote:
> 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 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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