[fetchmail-devel] [Bug #18984] Relocating pidfile, FETCHMAILHOME, parallel

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Bug #18984, was updated on 2013-Apr-26 12:17
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: fetchmail
Category: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Works For Me
Bug Group: None
Priority: 5
Submitted by: grarpamp
Assigned to : none
Summary: Relocating pidfile, FETCHMAILHOME, parallel

Details: I needed  to work around the lack of --password and also
fetch some things in parallel.

FETCHMAILHOME didn't seem to honor itself if set to an
empty writeable dir. [bug #1]

There was --pidfile, but it needed to be parallelizable to
avoid clobbering itself. By default it has no random part.
So --pidfile $(mktemp group1.pid.XXXXXX). [feat #1]

Looking to fix b#1 for others.
Note f#1 also applies to idfile, etc.


Follow-Ups:

Date: 2013-Apr-26 19:32
By: m-a

Comment:
The pid file is meant to be constant because it serves as a lock file.

FETCHMAILHOME works as advertised for me:

$ mkdir /tmp/empty
$ LC_ALL=C FETCHMAILHOME=/tmp/empty fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 6.3.26+GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS.
...
FreeBSD apollo.emma.line.org 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #2 r244869: Sun Dec 30 22:05:16 CET 2012     to...@ap...:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
Taking options from command line
No mailservers set up -- perhaps /tmp/empty/fetchmailrc is missing?

If you have evidence to the contrary, please show me a way to reproduce the problem and reopen the bug report.
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