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veggie2u
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 Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: [solved]fetchmail gives an error with fetchids |
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All of a sudden, my two users that execute fetchmail have started to get this error message:
| Code: | | fetchmail: lstat: ~/.fetchids: Permission denied |
I have read that this is needed with some pop3 servers. The thing that I don't get is why it can't write to the file. Is it trying to write to the users /home/the user/.fetchids file? Why would that give it a hassel? Or it it trying to write to /root/.fetchids?
I have been playing with cron, and emailing of error messages, but not fetchmail. I suppose I messed somehting up , or the email server I am popping changed how they respond to poping of mail. Anyway, I don't understand what user/group needs write permissions to what directory.
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veggie2u
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Ok, got it figured out.
When I was playing with cron, I must have reset some of the things in the crontab file I was using. Home was now at
Which I think was being interpreted at /root.
Once I replaced this with
All the permissions appear to be fine again.
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