Re: unusal fetchmail error
Hello Kozman
On 24 Jan 2001, at 12:04, Kozman Balint wrote:
> The problem is with fetchmail: sometimes when it gets defunct after
> downloading messages, it becomes a Zombie, and some minutes later when the
> new instance of fetchmail comes up, it stops working 'cos "another
> fetchmail is running in background" and this way users don't get their
> mails.
I have seen something similar. I ended up putting "killall fetchmail"
in the diald ip-up script, for our sites that insist on using fetchmail.
This script is called when the server was "off-line" and goes "on-
line". The dial-up is on a dynamic IP, so even if there was a
fetchmail process hanging around trying to suck mail from
somewhere I don't think it could be achieving anything useful at this
stage. Anyway it got rid of the stuck downloads.
This is a terrible hack. The problem should be sorted out within
fetchmail (if it has not been done already), but I never bothered to
look at it as we do not normally use POP3/fetchmail. We prefer
uucp for our intermittently connected mail servers.
If the bug has been fixed, can somebody let me know from which
version of the *.deb file was it sorted out. I would like to get rid of
that hack one day.
Ian Forbes
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