Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.
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On 02/12/08 03:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:58:57PM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
>> Andrew, Ron & others,
>>
>> a> probably because fetchmail died (or ...
>>
>> Which can happen if a power failure occurs
>> or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is
>> retrieving.
>>
>> This strikes me as a bug. An obvious strategy
>> would be to remove an old lock at startup.
>
> fetchmail cleans that stale lock on (its) startup. That lock may be in
> the user's home directory.
>
>> I know nothing about shutdown policy. Does
>> shutdown allow an application any leeway?
>> Can a second or two of delay be invoked
>> _via_ the xfsm-shutdown-helper?
>
> fetchmail is a daemon, and thus not part of a desktop. I don't suppose
> that this could be handled in the SIGKILL signal handler either.
fetchmail *can* be run as a daemon. (For some reason, I decided to
run it from cron every X minutes. It runs a different divisor of 60
for myself, wife & two children.)
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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