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magbenji
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Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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Location: I-duh-no, USA
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 Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:10 pm Post subject: fetchmail daemon won't start [Solved?] |
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I just updated my computer (emerge -uDNav) and now my fetchmail daemon won't start (fetchmail-6.3.9-r1 updated from 6.3.8-r2).
If I try (from the init script)
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start-stop-daemon --start --chuid fetchmail --exec /usr/bin/fetchmail -- -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -i /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids
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I get
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File /etc/fetchmailrc must be owned by you.
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/fetchmail'
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which made me think this is a permissions problem of some sort (that wasn't there before?). The permissions on the file, which was working before, are:
| Code: | # ls -la /etc/fetchmailrc
-rw------- 1 root root 120 Jan 8 00:06 /etc/fetchmailrc |
If I get rid of the '--chuid fetchmail' from the execution statement, then the daemon will start. Do I need to make the owner of /etc/fetchmailrc 'fetchmail'? Also in the init script there is a polling_interval argument that doesn't seem to be defined anywhere (unless start-stop-daemon is passing it from somewhere besides the init script and fetchmailrc?) (Nevermind, I see this is defined in /etc/conf.d/fetchmail!)
Finally, it seems fetchmail has lost my uid's in the process. So now it wants to re-fetch 1000s of email sitting on the server  . Is there someway to fix this???
---- Update
Okay - I changed the ownership of /etc/fetchmailrc and it works (I had to change the ownership of /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids as well).
| Code: | #chown fetchmail:fetchmail /etc/fetchmailrc
#ls -la /etc/fetchmail
-rw------- 1 fetchmail fetchmail 120 Jan 8 00:06 /etc/fetchmailrc
#chown fetchmail:fetchmail /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids
#ls -la /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids
-rw------- 1 fetchmail fetchmail 6825 Feb 24 07:48 /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchids
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I don't know if this is the correct way to fix this issue, but it worked for me.
It still doesn't fix the loss of the .fetchids file - so I'm downloading all of my mail again |
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mimosinnet
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Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I have come across the same issue and your post has been very helpful. I just issued the following command:
| Code: | | chown fetchmail:fetchmail /etc/fetchmailrc |
I have looked around a bit more and found this thread and this bug.
Thanks for posting your solution! |
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