Re: [fetchmail-devel] timeout not working for TLS

[Thomas J. <tho...@in...>]

On Wednesday, 28. July 2010 15:31:19 Matthias Andree wrote:
> > This morning I had a better idea: Enable core dumps and kill the task
> > via "kill -11" if it hangs again. Then we'll know for sure where it's
> > stuck.
> 
> Don't. fetchmail in most modes suppresses writing core files with
> setrlimit(), to avoid passwords hitting the disk outside the .netrc or
> .fetchmailrc files.

I just patched that out :o) Before pushing the "new" version to the 
productive system, I've verified the coredump gives a useful backtrace.

> Instead, if fetchmail hangs, just attach gdb with "gdb
> /usr/bin/fetchmail-unstripped 12345", where fetchmail-unstripped is an
> executable compiled with -g or better -ggdb3 option, and installed before
> the run, without running strip and without adding -s to the install
> command line.

No gdb on the productive box. I've just installed the unstripped version 
(took me 30min to discover the -s switch in the compile statement. Whoops).
Now we need to wait a month or so... thanks for your suggestions!

Cheers,
Thomas