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 > would be to remove an old lock at startup.
fetchmail cleans that stale lock on (its) startup. That lock may be in the user's home directory. > > I know nothing about shutdown policy. Does > shutdown allow an application any leeway? > Can a second or two of delay be invoked > _via_ the xfsm-shutdown-helper? fetchmail is a daemon, and thus not part of a desktop. I don't suppose that this could be handled in the SIGKILL signal handler either. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
