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. > > > > This strikes me as a bug. An obvious strategy > > would be to remove an old lock at startup. > > /tmp is cleaned out at boot. Maybe the fetchmail lockfile is > somewhere else? >
Yeah. I think this is more likely an issue of fetchmail being killed in a nasty way (kill -9 p<pid of fetchmail) or dying due to some other problem. A
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