[fetchmail]Lock Creation Failed

[Rob MacGregor]

On 4/14/05, Bowen, Nigel <nigel.bowen@adi-limited.com> wrote:
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> How do I clear a "Lock Creation Failed" state in Fetchmail
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> Where is this file???  and how to I get rid of it?

Well, if you check the man page it tells you where it is:

~/.fetchmail.pid
 =09lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode).
/var/run/fetchmail.pid
 =09lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (root mode, Linux systems).
/etc/fetchmail.pid
 =09lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (root mode, systems
without /var/run).

So, if you running fetchmail as a non-root user, make sure it can
write to it's home directory.

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Rob MacGregor
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