Re: The saga of wrestling with systemd (was) Re: logrotate options?

"Joe Acquisto-j4" <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:27:40 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
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> In any case, it works fine, but on "stop" it quits but gives the "failed" 
> message
> below.  It does stop as shown and does not seem to affect restart.  So far.
> 
> Jan 23 15:01:03 auxilary fetchmail[11981]: fetchmail: background fetchmail 
> at 11958 killed.
> Jan 23 15:01:03 auxilary systemd[1]: fetchmail.service: Unit entered failed 
> state.
> Jan 23 15:01:03 auxilary systemd[1]: fetchmail.service: Failed with result 
> 'exit-code'.
> 
> This really does not bother me, but might look into it at leisure.
> 
>  . . .
>> G'luck,
>> Peter
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
> 
> Again, thanks to all, your assistance was most helpful. 
> 
> joe a.
> 

As a follow up "systemctl restart fetchmail.service" also
seems to work without a hitch. I don't see that my attempts
at adding a time delay after stop, before restarting have had
any effect.  But, it works, so call it good.

joe a.