[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#380459: /etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken really doesn't anything

[Riccardo Stagni]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.4-1
Severity: normal


I tried to awake the fetchmail process, obtaining this result:
---
 eddie:~# /etc/init.d/fetchmail awaken
 Awakening mail retrieval agent: fetchmaileddie:~#
---

First of all it isn't cosmetically pretty! :)
In second place seems "something weird is happening"(tm). I started
it with sh -x:
---
 [...]
 + echo -n 'Awakening mail retrieval agent: fetchmail'
 Awakening mail retrieval agent: fetchmail+ '[' -r /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid ']'
 + su -c /usr/bin/fetchmail fetchmail
 eddie:~#
---


Then I edited the script and removed error redirecting, changing
  su -c $DAEMON $USER <&- >/dev/null 2>&1
to
  su -c $DAEMON $USER
(redirecting stderr to /dev/null should be forbidden by law), and this
error was showed: "fetchmail: no mailservers have been specified", that
seems to be related with the absence of the command-line argument -f.

Infact, starting fetchmail by-hand with
  su fetchmail -c "fetchmail"
mutters about the same error, while using
  su fetchmail -c "fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc"
works fine.

Because of the presence of a fetchmail process in background (so in the
awakening you can't start it with the same $OPTIONS), perhaps a good
solution may be using two variables, $OPTIONS and $AWAKENOPTIONS. The
latter should contain only "-f $CONFFILE" and --syslog (unless the user
specified "set no syslog", like you do for $OPTIONS).

regards,
Riccardo


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT at euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.87       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                   2.16.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext                       0.14.6-1   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8b-2   SSL shared libraries

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20050804   Common CA Certificates PEM files

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