-----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 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.
fetchmail *can* be run as a daemon. (For some reason, I decided to run it from cron every X minutes. It runs a different divisor of 60 for myself, wife & two children.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHseDnS9HxQb37XmcRAmjMAJ4k2BUvdne4BnHQxMiCKNyQZ5NaggCfSrRs GHB4f/mtGEMQ6hQ1D6bHb8Q= =vyGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]