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[fetchmail]daemon dying R5 FAQ

2003-12-06 14:27:15
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I getting bitten by the R5 'feature' a lot lately.  I'm not sure why 
this is happening... I don't like using the alternative method 
(fetchmail &).  Below is the last few lines of a strace when 
fetchmail dies.  If anyone has any suggests please let me know.  I'm 
basically run Gentoo up todate.

http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R5

(kvh(_at_)keira) - (SSH from rachael) - (15:15)-(~)> fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 6.2.3+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux keira 2.4.23_pre8-gss #2 Sat Dec 6 05:37:41 EST 2003 i586 
AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Taking options from command line and /home/kvh/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 900 seconds
Idfile is /home/kvh/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to root.
Fetchmail will direct error mail to the postmaster.
Options for retrieving from khindenburg(_at_)www(_dot_)cherrynebula(_dot_)net:
  True name of server is www.cherrynebula.net.
  Protocol is POP3.
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush 
off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits 
off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Message size limit is 80000 octets (--limit 80000).
  Message size warning interval is 3600 seconds (--warnings 3600).
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.
Options for retrieving from khindenburg(_at_)mail(_dot_)copper(_dot_)net:
  True name of server is mail.copper.net.
  Protocol is POP3.
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush 
off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits 
off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.


[... strace output ...]
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 
0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8056840, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4016e818}, 
{0x8056bf0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4016e818}, 8) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={60, 0}}, NULL) = 
0
close(3)                                = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 
0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8056bf0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4016e818}, 
{0x8056840, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4016e818}, 8) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 
0
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8053a70, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4016e818}, 
{0x8056bf0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4016e818}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x8053a70, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 
0x4016e818}, {0x8056c30, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, 0x4016e818}, 8) 
= 0
write(4, "QUIT\r\n", 6)                 = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
- --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
write(1, "fetchmail: terminated with signa"..., 37) = 37
unlink("/home/kvh/.fetchids")           = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
unlink("/home/kvh/.fetchmail.pid")      = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 4096)                = 0
_exit(1)                                = ?
Process 6344 detached

 (SSH from rachael) - (15:24)-(~)> cat .fetchmailrc
set daemon 900
set postmaster root
set no bouncemail
 
poll www.cherrynebula.net proto pop3
        user "XXX", with password YYY, is "kvh(_at_)cn(_dot_)net" here limit 
80000;
 
poll mail.copper.net proto pop3
        user "XXX", with password YYY, is "kvh(_at_)cn(_dot_)net" here;


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