Re: [OT] PAM problems getting mails

On 2018-08-24 13:34, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know this isn't a getmail-specific problem, but asking on another
> list would imply too much context to be explained ...
> 
> Using arch linux, my user (peter) is in the wheel group.
> 
> On CLI I can get emails using:
> sudo -E getmail
> 
> Using the same command in my personal crontab fails because of missing
> permissions (I'd have to add my password to the crontab ...).
> 
> So I tried to add the following line to /etc/crontab:
> 43 * * * *      root    su peter -c getmail
> 
> This fails, too:
> Aug 24 12:43:01 tuchola CROND[7958]: (root) CMDOUT (Configuration
> error: configuration file /home/peter/.getmail/getmailrc incorrect
> (error opening message_log file ~/.getmail/log (Permission denied,
> opening file "~/.getmail/log")))
> 
> So, how can I start getmail using my user's environment (especially
> "~" as my home directory) with cron?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/216692/where-is-the-user-crontab-stored

my crontab has this

*/5 * * * * getmail --quiet --rcfile getmailrc0 --rcfile getmailrc1

mick

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