hi folks,
i´m running fetchmail 6.2.5 on a gentoo box, but cannot get it working using
crontab. running fetchmail directely from shell works fine, but as i put
*/5 * * * * ctp fetchmail -f /home/ctp/.fetchmailrc
in my /etc/crontab i get mails for root telling me "fetchmail: lock creation
failed"
So for logging fetchmail's activity i changed it to:
*/5 * * * * ctp strace fetchmail -f /home/ctp/.fetchmailrc
and get system mails for root, which include (these are the last lines of the
strace):
...
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x8054e3b, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {0x8054e3b, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
open("//.fetchmail.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_SYNC, 0666) = -1 EACCES
(Permission denied)
write(2, "fetchmail: lock creation failed."..., 33fetchmail: lock creation
failed.
) = 33
exit_group(8) = ?
so i´m confused about the line 'open("//.fetchmail.pid", O_WRONLY ...'.
normally there should be a 'open("/home/ctp/.fetchmail.pid", O_WRONLY ...' as i
see stracing fetchmail running from a shell directely.
Anyone has an idea what´s going wrong? The permissions for /home/ctp are set
correctely:
$ ls -lad /home/ctp
drwxr-xr-x 65 ctp users 4096 Nov 15 05:53 /home/ctp
and there is no a lockfile from a previous session (as i read it should be a
problem for fetchmail if there one would exist)
i´m really confused with this behaviour of fetchmail and i hope not to be alone
with this trouble ;-)
chris