Bug#406391: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#406391: Creating the idfile in /etc/init.d/fetchmail is not useful anymore.

Nico Golde nico at ngolde.de
Mon Jan 15 12:56:22 CET 2007


tags 406391 + confirmed pending
thanks

Hi,
* Piotr Engelking <inkerman42 at gmail.com> [2007-01-10 22:29]:
> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.6~rc3-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> /etc/init.d/fetchmail creates the idfile, with comment "create 
> $UIDL if it
> doesn't exist, because the daemon won't have the permission". 
> This is no
> longer useful, as since version 6.3 fetchmail doesn't write 
> directly to the
> idfile, but creates a new file in the same directory instead.

Thanks for reporting, you are right, fixed in subversion.
Kind regards
Nico
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