Re: fetchmail problem, can't start

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
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.


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Re: fetchmail problem, can't start

2004-07-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
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?


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Re: fetchmail problem, can't start

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
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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