Hello,
I did experiment with this. Turns out, that "User=fetchmail" unsurprisingly is unable to create a subdirectory in /run. One has to use prefixes for that. However, I do ignore /etc/default/fetchmail intentionally, so that needs to be considered. One could use install instead of mkdir+chown as well. Cheers, ew. # -------------------------- [Unit] Description=Fetchmail Daemon Documentation=man:fetchmail(1) After=network-online.target postfix.service Wants=network-online.target ConditionPathExists=/run [Service] # /etc/default/fetchmail is intentionally ignored! Type=simple Restart=always User=fetchmail # use '+' to run the Pre commands with elevated privileges, NOT User=fetchmail! ExecStartPre=+/bin/mkdir -m 750 -p /run/fetchmail ExecStartPre=+/bin/chown fetchmail:nogroup /run/fetchmail ExecStart=/usr/bin/fetchmail --daemon 300 --nodetach --nosyslog --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmail/fetchmailrc --pidfile /run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target # -------------------------- -- The purpose of computing is insight --- not numbers! Richard Hamming, 1962
