Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail)
> > > /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file
> >
> > Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm that and try again.
>
> It worked perfectly. Thank you. Is this *.pid created due to a falure
> of the original process?
"man fetchmail" and "/FILES":
~/.fetchmail.pid
lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode).
You wouldn't want two fetchmail processes going after the same thing
at the same time. They'd both fail for nonsensical reasons.
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