Re: How does sendmail/majordomo work??

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From: Dave Addison
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:00

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You could try

/usr/sbin/pppd
su - fred -c /usr/bin/fetchmail
/etc/ppp/stop

as the su man page says that "-c /usr/bin/fetchmail" should be passed as
parameters to the shell started as user fred

or

 /usr/sbin/pppd
 su fred
 /usr/bin/fetchmail
 exit
 /etc/ppp/stop

as the exit command should return control to the root shell that ran su

I haven't been able to try either of these as I'm at work and haven't got
root access

Dave

Geoff Cox <geoff.cox@cableinet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:88hcqs4d9f19k1qph2vf32nfhvcnnlk2dm@4ax.com...
> Thanks for the info - finally got majordomo working !!
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff
>
> PS I am trying to write a script to automate this (via crontab) but do
> not know how to su root and pass the password in the script ?
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd
> su fred
> /usr/bin/fetchmail
> su root
> /etc/ppp/stop
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff

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