On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 11:36:44 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:21:08 +0100 (CET)
Roger Price <deb...@rogerprice.org> wrote:
but fetchmail goes on fetching mail. What is the correct way of
stopping fetchmail?
Perhaps there is a fetchmail.timer unit that is starting up
fetchmail.service from time to time?
Perhaps there's a cron job that starts it.
Debian 11 dpkg -L fetchmail does not show any timer unit or other cron device
that might keep a "dead" service alive.
systemctl status fetchmail.timer
No such unit in Debian 11.
You might also look at /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.systemd
I found nothing that keeps officially "dead" services alive.
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.
The process was alive for three months until I typed systemctl stop fetchmail. 6
hours later I typed systemctl status fetchmail and systemd told me that the
still running process had been "dead" for 6 hours.
# (*) Unless of course your system clock is massively wrong.
:-) I rely on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). An excellent service.
But the problem is solved. Command kill came to the rescue.
Roger
