120919 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:18:45 -0400 > Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> RTFM : front + centre it says to try 'fetchmail -vvv --nodetach >> --nosyslog'. That immediately told me the very non-obvious but >> crucial information : " ~/.fetchmail must have no more permissions >> than 700". Whyever ? > That's quite normal actually. The file might contain passwords > and you don't want every joker on the system reading them.
Yes, that is obvious once it's pointed out (grin). > It *really* should have printed that warning to the console though. Well yes, but it's normally running via a user cron job & error msgs probably get dumped somewhere or even nowhere. The place they should show up is syslog or mail.warn , but they certainly weren't arriving there. The new machine seems to be working properly now, but I've had 5 odd problems along the way, some perhaps bugs : (1) System Rescue has to look for its data file on all the devices, but it hangs up at unformatted drives or swap partitions (bug ?); (2) when you change from an Intel to an AMD CPU, you have to change the <x>HCI settings in the kernel in order to be able to use a USB mouse/keyboard ; (3) Fluxbox rewrites its 'apps' file at every exit, so to force Gkrellm to appear in a particular workspace you have to point to another file in 'init': Fluxbox is an excellent simple desktop manager, but its session management needs redesign & expansion ; (4) the latest Stage3 installs Python 3 as default (in some way), so scripts which worked earlier may need rewriting or you need to make them explicitly use Python 2 ; (5) Fetchmail has an odd, if understandable, requirement for its config file, but doesn't provide adequate warnings when it fails thereby (bug ?). I hope my descriptions of problems + solutions help others & thanks again to those who have contributed to the latter. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
