[imapfilter-devel] error: another imapfilter is running with pid 7848

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:40:45AM +0100, jan wrote:
> what about supressing the errormessage? is it done with the -q option? 

No, you cannot suppress error messages with the "-q" option.

> can i redirect the stdout to /dev/null?

You should redirect stderr to /dev/null.

> and whats about checking previously whether imapfilter is running? is it 
> possible to get the information anywhere?

Yes.  The $HOME/.imapfilter/lock file contains the PID of the imapfilter
instance that is currently running.

> or can you upgrade the -k operator so it does not quit when no session 
> is running?

No.  I think it is more logical, the way it is.