[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#454291: fetchmail --quit: should check, that pid file really contains pid of fetchmail process

[Dmitry Nezhevenko]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.8-10
Severity: normal

After unexpected machine shutdown I was unable to run fetchmail daemon.
fetchmail said that pid file exists and it's already running. However
there was no fetchmail process running. After looking to pid file I found,
that another process is running with same pid. And fetchmail --quit just
kill it without any warning/question. As for me, this is unexpected
behaviour.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.9 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser               3.105              add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils           2.28               Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                 2.7-3              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.2-1           common error description library
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-3           SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20070303   Common CA Certificates PEM files

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WBR, Dmitry
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