Re: How does sendmail/majordomo work??

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From: Geoff Cox
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:00

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Dave,

thanks for that....giving it a try

Geoff

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:37:44 +0100, "Dave Addison"
<dave@phaedra1.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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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