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

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Jul 31 18:18:26 UTC 2006


Riccardo Stagni <unriccio at email.it> writes:

> 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 line in the PID file contains the poll interval, and AFAIR
this is in accordance with LSB specs (I got a complaint that the old
format was in violation but was lucky to be able to fix it in a
compatible way).

-- 
Matthias Andree




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