Bug 18546

Summary:	fetchmail-6.2.2-r1: /etc/init.d/fetchmail overrides user preference for polling period
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Phil Richards <news>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) <avenj>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Phil Richards 2003-03-31 13:06:34 UTC

The latest fetchmail ebuild (6.2.2-r1) has a new init.d/fetchmail entry which
specifies "-d 60" (a 60 second polling period).  This command line option
overrides any admin set preference in the /etc/fetchmailrc with "set daemon ...".

Short of editing the init.d script (which I try to avoid doing for obvious
merge-conflict reasons), there appears no way to override it.

I'd suggest the addition of /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, and an appropriate
environment variable.

phil

Comment 1 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-31 14:36:39 UTC

Will fix this afternoon.

Comment 2 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-31 14:58:01 UTC

Fixed, thanks. /etc/conf.d/fetchmail defaults to a polling delay of 60 seconds.

I considered reverting the init script change and letting people set the polling period in their configuration (which seems saner) but unfortunately with our init script set up the init system doesn't realize the application exited if it doesn't daemonize. I'll be pondering this.