Hi, * Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> [2009-09-16 14:33]: > Fetchmail installs an initscript and it complains too loudly to the > system administrator when it does not run as a daemon: > > ,---- > | chagas:~# /etc/init.d/fetchmail stop > | Pidfile not found! Is fetchmail running? ... failed! > | chagas:~# > `---- > > The message above should be printed only if it is configured to run as a > daemon. In all other cases, it is explicitly not running and the > "failed" message is inappropriate (especially the tone of the message). > > I could mail a patch, but this is so obvious that it would be a waste. > > The message emmited by the start action is much more palatable.
I agree this is confusing. Will be fixed with the next upload. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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