Package: fdm
Version: 1.6-1
Severity: normal
Hi Frank,
There seems to be a problem with the lock file in fdm.
I currently have fdm configured to fetch emails fromi a pop3 server every
10 minutes, using a cron job.
In .fdm.conf, I'm using the following to ensure that there's only one
instance of fdm running.
# Lock file path.
set lock-file "${base}/lock"
Since I run it on a laptop, which I frequently keep
connecting/disconnecting and hibernating, at some point this gets
triggered while fdm is running.
I guess that is when sometime fdm is dying and is leaving a stale lock
file.
This then leads to no further fdm processes running because they
see the lock file and assume that an fdm process is already running.
Thus I end up with receiving no email messages until I realise that fdm
has left a stale lock file. Once I manually remove it, every thing runs
as normal.
IMO fdm should handle such error conditions and remove the lock file
when such circumstances trigger.
Ritesh
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpcre3 7.8-2+b1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-16 SSL shared libraries
ii libtdb1 1.1.3~git20090221-1 Trivial Database - shared library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
fdm recommends no packages.
fdm suggests no packages.
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