Re: Troubles starting fetchmail from init scripts

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 14:08 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:02 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
On 03/19/2010 02:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
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?

The perms on /home/jonrysh/.fetchmailrc need to be 600, with ownership
given to jonrysh:jonrysh

Everything is as you recommend. Note that the scheme works when invoked
from a command window running a shell as root, but not from the init
script.

You could also start it without the su by adding it to your own crontab:
@reboot sleep 30 & fetchmail

Thanks, I'll try this. But I'd still like to know what's the reason for
the permission failure when running out of rc.local . SELinux issues?

----
this works for me (in rc.local)...

/bin/su - craig -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail' &

Craig


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