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fetchmail: removing stale lockfile



I'm getting the message:

    fetchmail: removing stale lockfile

...every time I run fetchmail (5.3.4-1) on my system.  I just checked
and I'm running the most current version.

Running strace, I find the following:

    open("/home/karsten/.fetchmail.pid", O_RDONLY) = 3
    fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=5, ...}) = 0
    old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
    -1, 0) = 0
    x40014000
    read(3, "10581", 4096)                  = 5
    read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
    kill(10581, SIG_0)                      = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
    write(2, "fetchmail: removing stale lockfi"..., 35fetchmail: removing
    stale lock
    file
    ) = 35
    unlink("/home/karsten/.fetchmail.pid")  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
    directory)
    close(3)                                = 0

Naturally, ~/.fetchmail.pid does not exist.

Things appear to be working properly, but the message is getting mailed
to me as fetchmail runs from a user crontab.  I'd like to lose it.

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