On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:18:40PM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > Folk, > > Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally > this happens. > > peter@joule:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > peter@joule:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: background fetchmail at 4671 awakened. > > Can anyone explain why a stale lockfile should > come to exist? probably because fetchmail died (or got kill -9) ungracefully and left it's lockfile lying aroudn as a result. Then the first time you run it, it sees the old lockfile and removes it then sends itself tot he background. The second run just prods the background to wake up. A
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