On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Andre Majorel wrote:
> Or is pkill more than a wrapper around kill(pid, 15) and
> kill(pid, 9) ?
pkill is quite less prone to killing the wrong process due to a race
when you use it properly.
In the general case one should avoid SIGKILL. Trying other signals that
allow for
On 2016-10-12 08:40 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > # The systemctl stop for svnserve may not work as I haven't got around to
> > # making a stop script for it.
> > # So kill the process the old fashioned way
> > ps -ef | grep
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> but I don't completely understand what you mean. Are you saying that,
> even though the command to start fetchmail is not an invokation of a
> systemd unit, the fact that it is happening from inside a script that is
> run by a systemd unit somehow
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 04:55:06PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le duodi 22 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> > > strace -f -e execve -s 1 -o /tmp/my_script.$$.$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) &
>
> > But there is no my_script. in /tmp... WhaFu?
>
> My bad, I forgot the end of the
Le duodi 22 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> > strace -f -e execve -s 1 -o /tmp/my_script.$$.$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) &
> But there is no my_script. in /tmp... WhaFu?
My bad, I forgot the end of the command:
-p $$
(insert just before the final ampersand)
Command explained:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 05:17:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> You can debug what happens to your script by adding this line near the
> beginning:
>
> strace -f -e execve -s 1 -o /tmp/my_script.$$.$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S) &
>
> Tomorrow, the file in /tmp will tell you what happened.
>
OK I
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:29:01PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> > Fetchmail isn't set up as a service through systemd, although mysql and
> > svnserve are. fetchmail is just started from this script (or supposed to
> > be!) and
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 05:59:10PM +0200, Frank wrote:
> Op 12-10-16 om 17:17 schreef Mark Fletcher:
> >I wonder if passing the --fetchmailrc option will work. The systemd
> >journal snippet I included in my original post shows that fetchmail is
> >getting started successfully -- but by the
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:51:40PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> ># and restart the services we stopped
> >systemctl start svnserve
> >systemctl start mysql
> >sudo -u mark fetchmail -d 900
> >
> I think the issue revolves around unknown pwd. Perhaps running fetchmail as
> the user rather than
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Mark Fletcher wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:34:22
From: Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Script vs command line behaviour
Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:34:43 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Gre
Op 12-10-16 om 17:17 schreef Mark Fletcher:
I wonder if passing the --fetchmailrc option will work. The systemd
journal snippet I included in my original post shows that fetchmail is
getting started successfully -- but by the morning it's not running.
Now, clearly nothing gets past me, but that
Le duodi 22 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> You bring up a good point, actually. I'm calling systemctl stop and
> systemctl start to stop and start mysql -- and I'm doing that in a
> script that is itself being called by a systemd unit (the one triggered
> by the timer). I
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:36:40AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2016 09:40:57 Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:40:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > > # The systemctl stop for
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 12:09:12AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:29:01PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> Fetchmail isn't set up as a service through systemd, although mysql and
> svnserve are. fetchmail is just
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 04:29:01PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> > Fetchmail isn't set up as a service through systemd, although mysql and
> > svnserve are. fetchmail is just started from this script (or supposed to
> > be!) and
On Wednesday 12 October 2016 09:40:57 Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:40:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > # The systemctl stop for svnserve may not work as I haven't got
> > > around to # making a stop
Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit :
> Fetchmail isn't set up as a service through systemd, although mysql and
> svnserve are. fetchmail is just started from this script (or supposed to
> be!) and launched by hand from the command line when that fails.
>
> So at least
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:56:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:40:57PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > ...Any thoughts on what is preventing the restart of fetchmail from
> > working?
>
> Nothing in particular. I haven't used fetchmail in many years, and
> never as
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:40:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > # The systemctl stop for svnserve may not work as I haven't got around to
> > # making a stop script for it.
> > # So kill the process the old fashioned way
> > ps
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:40:57PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> ...Any thoughts on what is preventing the restart of fetchmail from
> working?
Nothing in particular. I haven't used fetchmail in many years, and
never as a "service" at the system level. So, just general thoughts:
1) Use
On Wednesday 12 October 2016 08:40:12 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> And stop using -9 (SIGKILL). Forever. Pretend it never existed.
That's a bit harsh. The tool exists for a good reason :-)
"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
would also stop you from doing
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 09:34:22PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> # The systemctl stop for svnserve may not work as I haven't got around to
> # making a stop script for it.
> # So kill the process the old fashioned way
> ps -ef | grep svnserve | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
Greetings
I am observing a strange behaviour and I am wondering what stupid thing
I have done that is causing it. A shell command that is supposed to
start fetchmail running every 15 minutes works fine run from the command
line, but has no effect when run from inside a script. I am running
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