Re: fetchmail problem, can't start

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> > > 
> > > 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?

"man fetchmail" and "/FILES":

   ~/.fetchmail.pid
      lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode).

You wouldn't want two fetchmail processes going after the same thing
at the same time.  They'd both fail for nonsensical reasons.


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