Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

[Roger Price <debian@rogerprice.org>]

Thanks for your replies.  I tried

 systemctl stop fetchmail.service

I tried 4 times. then I tried

 /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop

but although dead for 6 hours, fetchmail continued to fetch mails.
So I tried

 root@titan ~ ps -ef | grep fetch
 fetchma+    1264       1  0 Sep25 ?        00:06:33 /usr/bin/fetchmail -f
          /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog
 root@titan ~ kill 1264

And the fetchma+ process disappeared - I hope it no longer rises from the 
dead.

Roger