Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....

[Jim Bevier]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....


> Jim Bevier wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bob Hillegas" <bobhillegas at houston.rr.com>
>> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
>> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:12 PM
>> Subject: Fetchmail WARNING: Running as root is discouraged....
>>
>> What I did was download the source (yumdownloader -source fetchmail) and
>> modify the source to comment out the message.  Then compile it and
>> install.
>> I then added an entry to cron as root and run it every 6 minutes.  No
>> message to log and it works fine.  Not sure why they added the message
>> sometime during FC5.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
> Why run as root?
>
> I use this in /etc/rc.local:
> su - nbecker -c 'fetchmail -d 60'

Running as root allows me to download about 12 different users e-mail from 
my ISP, deliver it to the users, and run spamassassin with custom 
configurations.  Now if it was just one name, your suggestion would be 
correct, and I would not have to run as root.  The alternative would be to 
have a crontab entry for each user, and let it work from there.  One file 
from root is much easier.

Jim

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