Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail logrotate script works once then fails next run

[Chris <cpo...@em...>]

On Thu, 2017-02-16 at 22:35 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 16.02.2017 um 14:45 schrieb Chris:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2017-02-12 at 16:25 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > while [ -e /path/to/fetchmail.pid ] ; do sleep 1 ; done
> > Adding that one line to the script got it to run perfectly
> > Matthias,
> > thanks so much for the help
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> good to know that, but you need to keep an eye on it if you're using
> it
> as is.
> If the previous fetchmail instance *crashed* and left the
> fetchmail.pid
> file behind, this loop will wait forever without starting fetchmail
> anew.
> 
> Cheers,
> Matthias
> 
Ah, good to know Matthias, the cronjob runs at midnight but I check in
the morning to make sure the new log is being written to. 
-- 
Chris
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