On Dec 30, Robert Key wrote:
> Hi all,
> I use fetchmail to get my mail over a ppp link to my office computer.
> Both run linux. Problem: I cannot start fetchmail from the ip-up.local
> script I have to start it manually after the the link is up. The error
> message is "not the owner". How can I solve this?
> Thanks in advance,
> Rob Key
If you aren't explicitly setting the owner, it's possible that fetchmail, run
from ip-up.local, is running as root. As such, it would try to get root's
mail.
But, as you access across the net, I would guess that the root user is
transmogrified into user nobody, who does not have access to root's mailbox...
Just a guess...
-Michael
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