Summary: | net-mail/fetchmail-6.3.9-r1 fails to start via initscript (but works fine without) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Robin Bankhead <gentoo> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | art-gt, brian, darkside, gentoo |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2008.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Robin Bankhead
2009-03-21 00:21:03 UTC
I guess this is a follow up on bug 124387 (In reply to comment #1) > I guess this is a follow up on bug 124387 > Thanks for adding me here. Arthur, I didn't see bug 124387 comment #38. Did you have a further suggestion? Doesn't fetchmailconf write /etc/fetchmailrc? I don't want to patch that program too. "Non-root-owned files in /etc is not a good idea..." But that is currently needed to make fetchmail start isn't it? (In reply to comment #3) > "Non-root-owned files in /etc is not a good idea..." > > But that is currently needed to make fetchmail start isn't it? > No, it's not needed, although it's currently done. A solution is in the referenced ticket -- have the file stored elsewhere, and use a symlink from /etc. sorry for spamming this bug, just out of curiosity, what is tha bad thing about non-root owned files in /etc? e.g. -rw------- 1 fetchmail root 1389 Jun 3 20:23 fetchmailrc I've just tried again with current fetchmail and the initscript now works again. As this is pretty old and I haven't been keeping tabs for a while I've no idea which version fixed it, sorry. (In reply to comment #6) > I've just tried again with current fetchmail and the initscript now works > again. As this is pretty old and I haven't been keeping tabs for a while I've > no idea which version fixed it, sorry. OK. Closing then. Thanks. |