Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-13 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Andrew, Ron, Tzafrir and others, Thanks for the clarifications. At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:58 -0800 as-w> ... fetchmail being killed in a nasty way ... We're still not exactly certain how the stale lock comes to exist but ... At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:11:39 + tc> fetchmail is a daemon, ... tc

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/08 03:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:58:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Andrew, Ron & others, >> >> a> probably because fetchmail died (or ... >> >> Which can happen if a power failure occurs >> or I happen to r

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:58:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew, Ron & others, > > a> probably because fetchmail died (or ... > > Which can happen if a power failure occurs > or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is > retrieving. > > This strikes me as a bug. An obvious strategy

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:26:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/11/08 17:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Andrew, Ron & others, > > > > a> probably because fetchmail died (or ... > > > > Which can happen if a power failure occurs > > or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is > > retrieving.

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 17:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew, Ron & others, > > a> probably because fetchmail died (or ... > > Which can happen if a power failure occurs > or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is > retrieving. > > This strikes me as a bug

locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread peasthope
Andrew, Ron & others, a> probably because fetchmail died (or ... Which can happen if a power failure occurs or I happen to reboot while fetchmail is retrieving. This strikes me as a bug. An obvious strategy would be to remove an old lock at startup. I know nothing about shutdown policy. Do

Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:18:40PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally > this happens. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: background fetchmail at 4671

Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/08 13:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally > this happens. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: removing stale lockfile > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail > fetchmail: backg

stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-10 Thread peasthope
Folk, Mostly fetchmail works with no problem. Occasionally this happens. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail fetchmail: removing stale lockfile [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fetchmail fetchmail: background fetchmail at 4671 awakened. Can anyone explain why a stale lockfile should come to exist? Thanks,