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

[Nico Golde]

tags 380459 + pending confirmed
thanks
Hello Riccardo,

* Riccardo Stagni <unriccio at email.it> [2006-07-31 19:48]:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:30:40PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > I thought about your solutions but here comes mine :)
> > From fetchmail(1):
> > Normally,  calling fetchmail with a daemon in the background sends a wake-up signal to the dae-
> > mon, forcing it to poll mailservers immediately.  (The wake-up signal is SIGHUP if fetchmail is
> > running  as  root, SIGUSR1 otherwise.)  The wake-up action also clears any 'wedged' flags indi-
> > cating that connections have wedged due to failed authentication or multiple timeouts.
> > 
> > So my fix here is to get the pid from the pid-file and send SIGUP (kill -1) to the
> > process. Works pretty well and imho is the sanest solution here.
> > What do you think?
> Very smarter! :)

Ok after discussing the issue with upstream I decided to 
take your initial method because fetchmail is able to decide 
itself how to deal with a wake-up when called correctly. 
Also if I like the signal based method alot more.

> I read the manpage a lot of times, but I ever found nothing, perhaps
> because I was looking for awake:
>  man fetchmail
>  /awake
>  Pattern not found  (press RETURN)
>  "mmmh... It isn't awakenable by hand??? queer..."
> :)

Yes I also had the problem, upstream did some work do make 
it easier :)

> Just another question: why there are two pid in the pidfile? If I stop the
> daemon it correctly removes /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid, but when I
> restart it writes two numbers: the right pid (first row) and 300 (second
> row, that doesn't correspond to any process).

The second number is the sleep interval.

Anyway, fix will be included in the next upload, thanks for 
your very good report!
Regards Nico
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