Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.4.0~rc4-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I have been using fetchmail for several years to download mail from multiple
accounts, one instance for each account using the FETCHMAILHOME variable.
I realized only today that it was a few days since it was no longer downloading
mail.
The script that I use enters the directories of the various accounts,
sets the variable FETCHMAILHOME and uses the default values
Looking at the log file I saw this message (ACCOUNT is the email):
./ACCOUNT/fetchmail.pid: No such file or directory
fetchmail: lock creation failed.
If I create the file, before launching fetchmail, is correctly removed:
fetchmail: removing stale lockfile
but later the lock fails (ACCOUNT is the email):
7426 openat(AT_FDCWD, "./ACCOUNT/fetchmail.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,
0666) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
7426 dup(2) = 4
7426 fcntl(4, F_GETFL) = 0x8401 (flags
O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE)
7426 close(4) = 0
7426 write(2, "./ACCOUNT/fetch"..., 68) = 68
7426 write(2, "fetchmail: lock creation failed."..., 33) = 33
7426 exit_group(8) = ?
7426 +++ exited with 8 +++
To make fetchmail work again I had to specify the pidfile as argument
(FETCHMAILHOME is relative, not an absolute path)
--pidfile "$FETCHMAILHOME/fetchmail.pid"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debianutils 4.9
ii libc6 2.29-2
ii libcom-err2 1.45.3-4
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-6
ii libkrb5-3 1.17-6
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1d-1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20190110
Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn fetchmailconf <none>
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.4.7-1
ii resolvconf 1.79
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