Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

I have a little script to start fetchmail, which is activated in
rc.local. It runs perfectly when started from a root login; but it
fails when started from rc.local.

Here is the info:
=========================== Scripts Start ===========================
$ more rc.local fetchmail-start
::::::::::::::
rc.local
::::::::::::::
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

# Fork a script that will start fetchmail for jonrysh in a few seconds
/etc/rc.d/fetchmail-start

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
::::::::::::::
fetchmail-start
::::::::::::::
#!/bin/sh
#
# Start fetchmail for jonrysh

su jonrysh -c 'sleep 5; fetchmail'

=========================== Messages Start ===========================
Fetchmail emits the following error message and fails:
fetchmail: open: /home/jonrysh/.fetchmailrc: Permission denied

What's happening? How can it be fixed?

Thanks - jon


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