Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-13 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Andrew, Ron, Tzafrir and others, Thanks for the clarifications. At Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:58 -0800 as-w ... fetchmail being killed in a nasty way ... We're still not exactly certain how the stale lock comes to exist but ... At Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:11:39 + tc fetchmail is a daemon, ... tc

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-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

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 17:58, [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

locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread peasthope
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. I know nothing about shutdown policy.

Re: locks and shutdown policy; was Re: stale lockfile on fetchmail.

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:26:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/08 17:58, [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