[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#597607: fetchmail -q should check if it will kill a fetchmail instance or something else

[Olivier Berger]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.17-4
Severity: normal

Hi.

After a crash on my system, I rebooted and couldn't start fetchmail -d, because it thought it was still running.

So I did a fetchmail -q, which killed nm-applet that was running.

I bet nm-applet was running with the old PID of the fetchmail running in background before the crash.

fetchmail -q should only kill fetchmail instances and not anything else, IMHO.

Best regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser               3.112              add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils           3.4                Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                 2.11.2-5           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2            1.41.12-2          common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2      1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb5-3             1.8.3+dfsg~beta1-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8o-2           SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.2-23.1           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates            20090814+nmu2 Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.72-1     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  fetchmailconf                 6.3.17-4   fetchmail configurator
ii  resolvconf                    1.46       name server information handler

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