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

[Justin Pryzby]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:16:52AM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> 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:
Indeed, my first attempt to do so failed, and now it works
consistently..  The initial problem was out of disk space in /home,
allowing the file to be overwritten/created, but not allowing any
writes (which should also be an error, actually...).

Did you ever reproduce this one?

Justin