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

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

I have a brand new install of OS X Server on a test machine. I could give
you full root access to everything on the test box if it'd help (root login=
,
SSH access, Webmin, Usermin, etc.) I'm not too worried because it's only a
test machine anyway and I can erase everything once done. :-)

On 10/22/05, Jason Self <jas...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Nope. I enabled the module for Usermin and it displayed root's crontab
> (I recognized it immediately because mine is significantly different.)
> I created a new entry, then checked & it was also created in root's
> crontab.
>
> Interestingly, it didn't display _all_ of root's crontab. Things like
> /usr/libexec/atrun and periodic daily, weekly, monthly were not
> listed.
>
> On 23 Oct 2005 09:35:13 +1000, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> > 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. Th=
e
> > > 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 wil=
l
> 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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