On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 22:50 -0700, BenBart wrote: > Hi all, > > How do I prevent multiple instance of the same script from running? > > That is for example, if I have a script named script1.pl and it is > already running, I want the script to be able to check that it is > already running and then just exit ... > > Is this possible to do in both UNIX and Windows?
CPAN module Sys::RunAlone http://search.cpan.org/~elizabeth/Sys-RunAlone-0.05/lib/Sys/RunAlone.pm Also interesting is Sys::RunAlone make sure only one invocation of a script is active at a time Sys-RunAlone-0.05 - 11 Jun 2006 - Elizabeth Mattijsen Sys::RunUntil make sure script only runs for the given time Sys-RunUntil-0.02 - 19 Jul 2005 - Elizabeth Mattijsen Sys::RunAlways make sure there is always one invocation of a script active Sys-RunAlways-0.03 - 11 Jun 2006 - Elizabeth Mattijsen -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
