On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 18:56:09 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > 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
That process had been running for three months.(*) It wasn't "dead for 6 hours" at the moment you ran those commands. (*) Unless of course your system clock is massively wrong.
