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