Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] Allow to specify pid dir independent of home dir

[Héctor G. <he...@de...>]

El mar, 14-03-2006 a las 00:09 +0100, Matthias Andree escribió:
> This patch lacks documentation (fetchmail.man), and is not needed.
> 
I'll write the docu if there is any chance to integrate this change.

> You can use FETCHMAILHOME and then override the UIDL file location with
> --idfile /var/lib/fetchmail/foo-uids.
> 
The problem still is that if I want to place the pid
on /var/run/fetchmail I have to tell fetchmail that fetchmail's home is
there.
The problem on doing this, is that I cannot have a .ssh dir on my
fetchmail home with ssh keys, since the dirs at /var/run/fetchmail are
cleaned on every boot.
So far we fix it placing fetchmail's home at /var/lib/fetchmail but then
we have a problem when the machines dies and don't clean the .pid file.

> Remember that the user running fetchmail needs write access
> (create/rename files) to the directory.
> 
> I'll reconsider it for 6.4.0 (it's on my TODO),
> but don't rely on it being applied.
> 
If there is a chance, I'll go into write documentation and maybe
converting it also into a command line option.

Regards,

Héctor