Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail never dies :-(

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

"Roberto Meyer" <rob...@gm...> writes:

> I'm still havin trouble with it. I'm running fetchmail from user's cron.
>
> Even if it's a network problem, I expect fetchmail to die after a
> while. But sometimes it doesn't happen.
>
> I've modified the default 600 seconds fetchmail should wait for any
> server response to 60 seconds but it still hangs in my process list.

Do you have daemon mode enabled? Else see Jakob's reply.

> Example pasted (process stopped at 2pm, I found it at 5pm, which means
> 3 hours without downloading mail!)

How do you "stop" the process? Did you kill fetchmail or just the
/bin/sh wrapper? 

And if it's "someuser"'s process, how can you be sure it's not been
restarted by cron in the meanwhile?

> Any idea of why is this happening? I'm running fetchmail release
> 6.2.5+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS over Debian Sarge.

Even though I consider 6.2.X obsolete and won't fix any bit in it unless
someone tosses $$,$$$.$$ my way, that's not a known failure mode for
fetchmail 6.2.X either. So:

what did you do?
what did you get?
what did you want instead?

-- 
Matthias Andree