Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 21 Sep 2009, at 17:06, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> ...
> To not to involve stdout was the hack!
>
> Currently I am running fetchmail via fcron and does what it should
> since fetchmail directly reports to /dev/null.

Sorry to seem like a numptie, but are you saying you fixed it?

The problem was solved merely by adding the redirect?

> I think I will change the whole suff to run in daemon mode, since I
> think (to be read as: "...not know for sure...") that it is a little
> bit more performant. Or?

I  run as user, 2 users, each with their own .fetchmailrc & each  
adding their own entry into their own crontab. I.E. just like you have  
it now. I have been running my system this way for years.

The notion of daemon mode bothers me, because it must be run by root  
(IIRC) and the various users all put their separate private email  
passwords in a single file in /etc  OTOH, the daemon mode  
configuration file is readable only by root, and if the root account  
is compromised then the users' private  .fetchmailrc files can be read  
anywhere.

Fetchmail is a bit of a kludge, really. I wouldn't worry too much  
about being best conformant.

Stroller.