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Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Sep 26 11:29:17 UTC 2006


Tim:
>> Having seen that in another topic, made me wonder about something I'm
>> doing.  My /etc/rc.local file has a string of lines in it like the
>> following:  su tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900"
>> 
>> Should I be doing it like this, instead:
>> su - tim -c "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900"

M.Lewis:
> Not necessary to change as you have explicitly given the path to fetchmail.

Thanks.  I was wondering whether other user paths might be important,
though it's been running this way, without any apparent problems, for
quite some time.

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