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

[jan]

ok.. i have a solution; maybe someone is interested in....

von Lefteris Chatzibarbas am 17.11.2003 21:52:

>On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:40:45AM +0100, jan wrote:
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>>can i redirect the stdout to /dev/null?
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>You should redirect stderr to /dev/null.
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it works, but the programm is still exiting with error code 4, so the 
mail is still sent.

>>and whats about checking previously whether imapfilter is running? is it 
>>possible to get the information anywhere?
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>Yes.  The $HOME/.imapfilter/lock file contains the PID of the imapfilter
>instance that is currently running.
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ok.. thats my solution. i wrote a script, which tests the existance of 
this file and waits until it disappears.
here you are:

timeout=20          # timeout in seconds
i=0                      # counter for timeout
while [ -e ~/.imapfilter/lock ] do
        echo -n "."      # print dots while waiting
        let i=i+1         # count timeout
        sleep 1s         # wait

        if [ $i -gt $timeout ] then   # test timeout; then exit
                exit 0
        fi
done
~/bin/imapfilter-0.9.4/imapfilter -c ~/.imapfilter/imapfilter_rc

and thats my .forward (where "jan" is my account-name)
\jan
"|/home/jan/bin/imapfilter.sh"


regards
jan