Re: unusal fetchmail error

2001-01-30 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Kozman On 24 Jan 2001, at 12:04, Kozman Balint wrote: > The problem is with fetchmail: sometimes when it gets defunct after > downloading messages, it becomes a Zombie, and some minutes later when the > new instance of fetchmail comes up, it stops working 'cos "another > fetchmail is runn

Re: unusal fetchmail error

2001-01-24 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Antti Tolamo wrote: > At 14:04 24.1.2001, Kozman Balint wrote: > >The problem is with fetchmail: sometimes when it gets defunct after > >downloading messages, it becomes a Zombie This is probably fetchmail or cron bug. What is the parent process of the zo

Re: unusal fetchmail error

2001-01-24 Thread Jason Quigley
I get similar problems with fetchmail. It times out while waiting for a server response. Even if the timeout parameter is supplied it does the same. IIRC, this is listed on the bugs page for fetchmail. I threw together a couple of scripts to fix the problem. This goes in my /etc/cron.d direct

Re: unusal fetchmail error

2001-01-24 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 14:04 24.1.2001, Kozman Balint wrote: >Hi to everyone, > >I'm running a local mailserver behind a Sonic pro firewall. Outgoing >messages are sent via exim to the smarthost outside with address revision. >I use fetchmail to get messages from the mailserver outside via pop3. >The problem is with