[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#546841: fetchmail: complains too loudly when it is explicitly configured to not run as a daemon

[Rogério Brito]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.9~rc2-7
Severity: minor

Hi.

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.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1+e517a5e9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils              3.2.1           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                    2.9-26          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2               1.41.9-1        common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2         1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3             1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3                1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8              0.9.8k-5        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-23          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20090814   Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  qmail [mail-transport-agent]  1.03-16    DJB's qmail
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

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