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

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> [2009-09-16 14:37]:
> Am 16.09.2009, 05:54 Uhr, schrieb Rogério Brito <rbrito at ime.usp.br>:
> 
> >Package: fetchmail
> >Version: 6.3.9~rc2-7
> >Severity: minor
> >
> >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:~#
> >`----
> 
> BTW, stopping a daemon that isn't running IS NOT A FAILURE, but success. Print 
> a warning if need be, but don't fail.

Stop yelling ;) It is a success, it's just the message that 
says failed (meaning the return value).

Cheers
Nico
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