Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.
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On 02/11/08 17:58, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> Andrew, Ron & others,
>
> a> probably because fetchmail died (or ...
>
> Which can happen if a power failure occurs
> or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is
> retrieving.
>
> This strikes me as a bug. An obvious strategy
> would be to remove an old lock at startup.
/tmp is cleaned out at boot. Maybe the fetchmail lockfile is
somewhere else?
> I know nothing about shutdown policy. Does
> shutdown allow an application any leeway?
> Can a second or two of delay be invoked
> _via_ the xfsm-shutdown-helper?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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