Re: Correct way to stop fetchmail

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Roger Price (12024-12-28):
>  ● fetchmail.service - LSB: init-Script for system wide fetchmail daemon
>      Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/fetchmail; generated)
>      Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2024-12-28 10:37:58 CET; 6h ago
>        Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
>     Process: 1250 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/fetchmail start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>     Process: 1199929 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/fetchmail stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>       Tasks: 1 (limit: 57750)
>      Memory: 1.9M
>         CPU: 6min 33.392s
>      CGroup: /system.slice/fetchmail.service
>              └─1264 /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmarc
>                     --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog
>  ...
>  Dec 28 17:06:54 titan fetchmail[1264]: reading message
>                                         mailbox@rogerprice.org@mail.gandi.net:1 of 1 (9321 octets) flushed
> 
> It's dead

It is “dead” but not dead, since it still has a process. Your problem is
there, you do not need to look elsewhere: systemctl stop did not do its
job properly. You need to find out why.

-- 
  Nicolas George