Bug#376603: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#376603: fetchmail: empty pidfile in ~/ causes fetchmail to fail silently

[Nico Golde]

Hi
* Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net> [2006-07-04 00:50]:
> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> $ echo >/home/pryzbyj/.fetchmail.pid
> $ fetchmail; echo $?
> 0
> $
[...] 
> And again *tries* to say something:
> |write(3, "/home/pryzbyj/.fetchmail.pid: Fi"..., 42) = 42
> |close(3)                                = 0
> |munmap(0xa7f88000, 4096)                = 0
> |write(2, "fetchmail: lock creation failed."..., 33) = 33
> |munmap(0xa7f89000, 4096)                = 0
> |exit_group(8)                           = ?
> |Process 20056 detached
> 
> So the second bug is that it tries but fails to report an error to me,
> when it has already inhibited its own ability to do so.  It either
> needs to not do that, or open("/dev/console") or "/dev/tty", or
> "/dev/tty0" or some such in order to write to it, or to use some
> syslog/msg foo (which shouldn't be necessary).

Thats very strange, I can not reproduce this:
fetchmail:
  Installed: 6.3.4-1
  Candidate: 6.3.4-1
  Version table:
 *** 6.3.4-1 0

[nion at noname] (~/) echo > .fetchmail.pid
[nion at noname] (~/) fetchmail; echo $?
/home/nion/.fetchmail.pid: File exists
fetchmail: lock creation failed.
8
What does fetchmail -v say?
Kind regards
Nico
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