Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.9~rc2-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I'm using DHCP here on my computer and the client for DHCP starts fetchmail
when my computer got a response. The problem is that with that fetchmail is
started before postfix and spamd, which is not only ugly but leads to at least
one uncheckt spammail per boot. So I investigated that problem and found
try-restart behaving like it does, starting the daemon if it is not running
already (which, in my opinion, is not intuitive). And so it came to this
wishlist item.
To lessen the pain (if you should recon this item), I already made that small
change:
diff --git a/debian/fetchmail.default b/debian/fetchmail.default
index c145c37..9e2a5d1 100644
--- a/debian/fetchmail.default
+++ b/debian/fetchmail.default
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@
# Declare here if we want to start fetchmail. 'yes' or 'no'
START_DAEMON=no
+
+# Start fetchmail on try-restart ('normal') or not ('dontstart').
+TRY_RESTART=normal
diff --git a/debian/init b/debian/init
index e5c94ff..8931cb8 100644
--- a/debian/init
+++ b/debian/init
@@ -177,7 +177,9 @@ case "$1" in
exit 0
fi
fi
- test -f /etc/rc`/sbin/runlevel | cut -d' ' -f2`.d/S*fetchmail*
&& $0 start
+ if [ ! "x$TRY_RESTART" = "xdontstart" ]; then
+ test -f /etc/rc`/sbin/runlevel | cut -d' '
-f2`.d/S*fetchmail* && $0 start
+ fi
;;
awaken)
log_begin_msg "Awakening mail retriever agent:" "fetchmail"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.108 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.29 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.40.11-1 common error description library
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20080617 Common CA certificates
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