On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > With no fetchmail to feed mail to mutt and so no threading I have lost > the thread and must re-post. If you want to read the thread, look among the headers of any mail on this list, for `List-Archive:'. > As advised I re-copied /oldhome/tom to /home/tom with tar. This did not > solve the problem. It wasn't supposed to, really. > There is no .fetchmail.pid file in /oldhome/tom or anywhere else. Ooops. I thought ~/.fetchmail.pid was _the_ lockfile. Did you mean running fetchmail as user tom, or a sitewide fetchmail started at bootup? Or a fetchmail run by another user maybe? > I tried dpkg -- purge fetchmail followed by apt-get -f install > fetchmail. This did not solve the problem. Should be ``dpkg --purge'' (without the space after `--'). > Any more suggestions? Yes: strace(1). Look especially for the open(), and anything from the stat() family (man 2 stat). HTH. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7
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