[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#632479: fetchmail: accept -f and --pidfile option even when background running

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.19-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

I run two fetchmail daemones, one using idle mode for one imap account,
and one in batch mode for all the other ones.  I'm thus using the -f and
--pidfile option so that they don't interfere with each other. However,
I can't trigger the batch one to proceed:

$ fetchmail -f .fetchmailrc-all --pidfile .fetchmail.pid-all
fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is running.

Fetchmail should at least accept -f and --pidfile in this case.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (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/bash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.113            add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils             4.0.2            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                   2.13-7           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2              1.41.12-4stable1 common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2        1.9.1+dfsg-1+b1  MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb5-3               1.9.1+dfsg-1+b1  MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl1.0.0             1.0.0d-3         SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                3.2-27           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20110421   Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.76-2     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  resolvconf                    1.57       name server information handler

-- no debconf information

-- 
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at fnac.net>
<d> bah à défaut de ligne TGV, ils ont un GR
 -+- #ens-mim - comment ça, paumé ?! -+-