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

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

Hi Jason,
That would be very useful, as clearly something is behaving differently
on OSX from other operating systems like Linux. You better send me the
login details off-list though :-)

 - Jamie

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:00, Jason Self wrote:

> 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. 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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