Re: strange email behavior
From: Gordon Messmer (yinyang_at_eburg.com)
Date: 09/09/03
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To: redhat-list@redhat.com Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 23:25:51 -0700
Marc Adler wrote:
> Ok, just as soon as I sent the above message, I realized I also had a
> startup script for fetchmail that might have something to do with it. I
> su'ed into root status and sure enough there in root's mutt were all the
> lost messages. So now the problem is, what's wrong with the startup
> script?
[snip init script]
Since running fetchmail as root is such an unbelievably bad idea that I
can't believe anyone suggested it, I'm reposting a script based on one
originally posted by Colin Cyr in 1998. Consider using this instead of
the init script that you've got.
This init script has two advantages. First, it doesn't run as root, so
you're less likely to have problems if someone finds an exploitable
problem in fetchmail. Second, it allows users control over their own
fetchmail process, so they can change the password in the fetchmailrc
and restart the process if they need to.
#!/bin/sh
#
# fetchmail This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# fetchmail.
#
# chkconfig: 345 81 31
# description: Fetchmail is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program \
# that moves mail from one machine to another.
# processname: fetchmail
# config: ~/.fetchmailrc
# pidfile: ~/.fetchmail.pid
FETCHMAIL=/usr/bin/fetchmail
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -f ${FETCHMAIL} ] || exit 0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
# Start daemons.
echo -n "Starting fetchmail:"
for userdata in `getent passwd | cut -d: -f1,6`; do
username=`echo ${userdata} | cut -d: -f1`
userdir="`echo ${userdata} | cut -d: -f2`/.fetchmailrc"
if [ -f ${userdir} ]; then
su - ${username} -c "${FETCHMAIL} -d300 &> /dev/null"
echo -n " ${username}"
fi
done
echo
;;
stop)
# Stop daemons.
echo -n "Shutting down fetchmail:"
for userdata in `getent passwd | cut -d: -f1,6`; do
username=`echo ${userdata} | cut -d: -f1`
userdir="`echo ${userdata} | cut -d: -f2`/.fetchmail.pid"
if [ -f ${userdir} ]; then
su - ${username} -c "${FETCHMAIL} -q &> /dev/null"
echo -n " ${username}"
fi
done
echo
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: fetchmail {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
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