From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mq3pK-0005hB-IL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:46:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11B98E08C0; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD81E08C0 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:46:32 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,431,1249254000"; d="scan'208";a="128204400" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 22 Sep 2009 12:46:31 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E58C9556 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:46:29 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090921160604.GC5876@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?" Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:46:27 +0100 References: <20090920153451.GB5807@solfire> <20090921160604.GC5876@solfire> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 27d3a126-5258-4549-8d74-1b5ace5d19d0 X-Archives-Hash: f07e4eff2e1a4971d56875007ed74930 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.