hi all,
after i installed defective nvidia drivers on freebsd 4.7 and rebooted without
taking the care of disabling kdm, the drivers crashed my machine several
times before i could get a chance to snab at /etc/ttys to turn off kdm.
i have been using successive version of fetchmail for about a year now, which
i used to start as a daemon from crontab:
~ > crontab -l
@reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
since i recovered from the hard boots, when i try to start fetchmail, i get
this problem:
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.1.2 daemon
fetchmail: lock creation failed.
no matter whether there is .pid file remaining or not. fetchmail does not
fetch any mail whatsoever.
from kmail, i can get all my new mail so i don't seem to be stuck in the pop
login at my isp.
can anyone help me out solving this problem ? i really need fetchmail to check
mail from remote over ssh and doing that via kmail is, ahem, time-consuming.
well, i guess this message is pretty pointless since fetchmail just started to
work successfully again as i finished edititng this message.
long live fetchmail !
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