Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 10:28:17PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, nwe wrote:
> 
> > On 8/17/26 3:24 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> > 
> > > root@titan ~ journalctl -S 2026-08-1508:28:15 | grep -e 'fetchmail.*start'
> > 
> > You run fetchmail as root?
> 
> I ran the command journalctl as root, but the fetchmail daemon runs as user 
> fetchmail :
> 
> rprice@titan ~ ps -ef | grep fetchmail
> fetchma+  295717 1 0 Aug15 ? 00:02:24 /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>           --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog


Right, there's it.

> > Possibly this explains the unexpected behavior?
> 
> The unexpected behaviour was because I did not initially understand that Debian 
> 13 automatically includes a -f option to specify a non-default name for the 
> ~/.fetchmailrc run control file.

It is being invoked that way. I see now.

Cheers
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t

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