On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, J. Scott Kasten wrote:
> No need to CRON it. Config and run it as root and it daemonizes and serves
> all local users that you profile.
>
> On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 10:54:30AM -0800, Stephen King wrote:
> > I would imagine that fetchmail as a cron job would be the one for the job
> > of getting the mail from multiple POPs to local users and maybe diald to
> > connect the PPP when needed. Then have the network machines check for mail
> > on the local machine that is running the aforementioned progs.
> >
Running as root is just another security hazard. It will run fine as a
normal user. Why run as root? It will Daemon under a user.
Jeff
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