fetchmail > /dev/null\

[hamza]

hi

i execute ed this command using command terminal
fetchmail > /dev/null\
and it is working correctly, but when I but put it inside bash scrpit, then it give me the following error
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified.

#!/bin/bash
fetchmail > /dev/null

so, what is the correct command way inside bash??

[rpdom]

Why are you running the bash script as root?

What is wrong with just running it as "pi" (or your normal user)?

[hamza]

How can I run the comnand or script as pi user ??or another user?

[kusti8]

How are you running the script?
It should be simply:
./script.sh

[rpdom]

Um, you just run it.

You'd need to be doing something different to run it as root or another user, like using sudo for example.

How are you running the script and the command at the moment?

[Joe Schmoe]

I think a lot of people get the impression (from reading the posts on this board) that if anything at all goes wrong with a command, putting "sudo" in front of it will fix it.

[pluggy]

I think a lot of people get the impression (from reading the posts on this board) that if anything at all goes wrong with a command, putting "sudo" in front of it will fix it.

I think a lot of people just put sudo in front of commands irrespective whether it works or not as a standard user.

[Joe Schmoe]

I think a lot of people get the impression (from reading the posts on this board) that if anything at all goes wrong with a command, putting "sudo" in front of it will fix it.

I think a lot of people just put sudo in front of commands irrespective whether it works or not as a standard user.

Quite so. Why mess around?

[pluggy]

I think a lot of people get the impression (from reading the posts on this board) that if anything at all goes wrong with a command, putting "sudo" in front of it will fix it.

I think a lot of people just put sudo in front of commands irrespective whether it works or not as a standard user.

Quite so. Why mess around?

Because sometimes the application doesn't like being run as root ? (which brings us nicely back to square one).

[Joe Schmoe]

Because sometimes the application doesn't like being run as root ? (which brings us nicely back to square one).

It was a joke.

It's like what I call "The kill -9 problem". Once people learn about "kill -9", they never use anything else...

I could write an essay about "kill -9", but suffice it to say that the range of cases where "kill -9" works and ordinary "kill" doesn't, is actually pretty small.