On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:12:45 -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:01:43 -0500, ad
> <as@no-span.org> wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> I get the following email from the system all the time:
>>
>> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on abc
>>
>> /etc/cron.daily/checksecurity:
>> find: /home/xyz/.fetchmail.pid: No such file or directory
>> ~
>>
>> Is there any config file that I can edit to stop Anacron to complain about
>> this ".fetchmail.pid"?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> First, does /home/xyz/.fetchmail.pid exist? Is it a broken symbolic
> link? If I'm not mistaken, that file should only exist while fetchmail
> is running. If it doesn't exist now, you might have a crontab or a
> script which runs fetchmail, and just happens to be running every day at
> the same time as checksecurity. If "ls -l /home/xyz/.f*" produces the
> message "/home/xyz/.fetchmail.pid: No such file or directory", that
> could be a sign of filesystem corruption; you might need to run fsck.

No, the file does not exist. Like you said, it must be just the timing.
When the cron is running, fetchmail is trying to get the mail.

Thanks for the info.