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-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c2
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.man2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2423df12..d87093ba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ fetchmail-4.3.6 ()
* New --smtpaddress option from Henning P. Schmiedehausen allows you
to force the hostname used in MAIL FROM lines.
* If link can't find the bind library, force `no dns' on all connections.
+* Change name of ordinary-user lockfile so .fetchmail can be used as a
+ logging directory.
-There are 279 people on fetchmail-friends and 119 on fetchmail-announce.
+There are 271 people on fetchmail-friends and 119 on fetchmail-announce.
fetchmail-4.3.5 (Mon Dec 15 06:07:08 EST 1997)
* Added Kent Robotti's fetchsetup configuration script.
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index 90446961..e6c45c02 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
sprintf(tmpbuf, "%s/fetchmail.pid", PID_DIR);
else {
strcpy(tmpbuf, home);
- strcat(tmpbuf, "/.fetchmail");
+ strcat(tmpbuf, "/.fetchmail.pid");
}
/* perhaps we just want to check options? */
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man
index 04232137..5a749ef3 100644
--- a/fetchmail.man
+++ b/fetchmail.man
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ UIDL command).
your FTP run control file, which (if present) will be searched for
passwords as a last resort before prompting for one interactively.
.TP 5
-~/.fetchmail
+~/.fetchmail.pid
lock file to help prevent concurrent runs (non-root mode).
.TP 5
/var/run/fetchmail.pid