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Re: fetchmail problem, can't start



On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> > I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as
> > user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings
> > in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/
> > Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the
> > problem started. This is what I get:
> > 
> > tony@hpd:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail)
> > /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file
> 
> Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid?  rm that and try again.
> 

It worked perfectly. Thank you. Is this *.pid created due to a falure
of the original process?



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