On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:55:26PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > 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
> > [...]
> > unlink("/home/karsten/.fetchmail.pid") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> >
> > Naturally, ~/.fetchmail.pid does not exist.
> >
> as you can see from the above two lines i cut out, the file seems to
> disappear while it is read ...
> this typically would indicate some race condition.
> is it possible, that there are two instances of fetchmail started by the
> cron job at nearly the same time?
>
> i have no other idea ...
The strace results come from launching fetchmail from the command line.
AFAICT, only one instance is running.
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