Re: fetchmail problem, can't start
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 $(which fetchmail) > > > /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file > > > > Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm that and try again. > > It worked perfectly. Thank you. Is this *.pid created due to a falure > of the original process? "man fetchmail" and "/FILES": ~/.fetchmail.pid lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode). You wouldn't want two fetchmail processes going after the same thing at the same time. They'd both fail for nonsensical reasons. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem, can't start
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:01:49AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: > > I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as > > user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings > > in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/ > > Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the > > problem started. This is what I get: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash -x $(which fetchmail) > > /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file > > Do you have a ~/.fetchmail.pid? rm that and try again. > It worked perfectly. Thank you. Is this *.pid created due to a falure of the original process? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problem, can't start
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: > I noticed that since last night fetchmail is not working (as > user). The way I have it set up is that the user (me) has the settings > in .fetchmailrc in /home/tony/ > Last night we had some power outage, and probably after it is the the > problem started. This is what I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]