[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#306953: marked as done (fetchmail: --logfile option ignored)

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Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.2.5-12
Severity: normal

Fetchmail is ignoring the --logfile option. It is sending its messages
to standard output instead and not creating the requested logfile.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1ken
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.63         Add and remove users and groups
ii  base-files                  3.1.2        Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debconf                     1.4.48       Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                 2.13.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7e-3     SSL shared libraries

-- debconf information:
* fetchmail/confwarn:
* fetchmail/systemwide: false
* fetchmail/initdefaultswarn:
* fetchmail/runasroot: false
  fetchmail/fetchidswarn:

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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de>
To: Ken Bloom <kabloom at ucdavis.edu>, 306953-done at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#306953: fetchmail: --logfile option ignored
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This is not a bug, but documented behavior. The man page reads:

| The -L <filename> or --logfile <filename> option (keyword: set logfile)
| allows  you  to  redirect status messages emitted while detached into a
|                                                  ----------------
| specified logfile (follow the option with the logfile name). (...)

This means: you need to use daemon mode (-d 600 or set daemon 600 or similar)
and you MUST NOT use -N.

This works for me. Closing the bug.

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Matthias Andree