Re: [Solved] Unable to configure .fetchmailrc

[email protected] (HE12026-08-18):
> I don't even understand what you mean there. What do you understand by
> "a daemon"?

A program that the system started without you entering a command or
clicking in a menu.

> Besides, I gues the program looks itself for the users home

My point is that in this case there is no user, only the system, and
therefore looking for the home of somebody who does not exist makes no
sense.

(Of course, the daemon still has a UUID, hopefully there is an entry for
that UUID in the passwd file and a value in the initial working
directory field, but the directory it points to, if it even exists, does
not have any feature of a home directory of a user. It is entirely
irrelevant information.)

The fact is that fetchmail is not designed to run as a system daemon and
therefore the man page does not talk at all about it, it mentions only
~/ because it is meant to be started by a user. It can be run as a
system daemon, but since it does not come from the project it is not
documented in the man page.

Regards,