[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#404740: Log-file is not written, after it has been rotated (daemon-mode)

[Daniel Leidert]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.6~rc3-1
Severity: important

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I will try to explain:

fetchmail runs in daemon-mode with the following (relevant) options in
/etc/fetchmailrc:

set logfile /var/log/fetchmail
set no syslog

So let's say, I start fetchmail in daemon mode (user: fetchmail):

/etc/init.d/fetchmail start

Now my /var/log/fetchmail(.1.gz) log at last says:

fetchmail: Mi 27 Dez 2006 20:19:49 CET: schlafe 1800 Sekunden lang
(sleeping at ... for the non-German readers)

Then the file has been rotated and a new /var/log/fetchmail was created.
But fetchmail did not write to the new file. The file stayed empty until
the daemon was restarted, although there were several fetchmail runs
during the log-rotation and the daemon restart.

I observed this issue several times. Please tell me, if you need further
information. I will try to provide them.

Regards, Daniel


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.09060920
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.101       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                  2.17.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext                      0.16.1-1    GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-4    SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-22      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20061027   Common CA Certificates PEM files

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