Bug#389270: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#389270: further investigations

[Matthias Andree]

Eike Sauer schrieb am 2006-09-28:

> By chance, I found additional information. During init.d, just before kdm
> is started, fetmchmail says: "fetchmail already started; not starting."
> 
> Just do assure, there is a fetchmail daemon running:
> # ps aux|grep fetchmail
> 103       4065  0.0  0.0   6044  1324 ?        Ss   00:42   
> 0:00 /usr/bin/fetchmail -v -v -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -d 
> 300 --syslog -i /var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchmail-UIDL-cache

Can you check if the PID (first line in
/var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid) is actually fetchmail's PID? The stale
lock recovery isn't very bright, if any process has taken the PID
recorded in the file, fetchmail assumes it were running.

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Matthias Andree