On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Richard Bonebrake wrote:
> I am using Mandrake 8.2 as a server. I have postfix doing the mail and have
> gnu_pop3d running as the pop3 server. If a user drops connection for some
> reason while he is getting his mail, it will leave the lock file in place.
> The lock file will never be removed. Is there a place to configure this to
> be removed in say 10 or 15 minutes or is there a way to run some other
> software to check for loss of connection and then clear the lock file. I am
> new to Linux so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Richard D. Bonebrake
> Asquith Internet
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Richard,
probably the easiest thing you could do for this would be to use a small
shell script to check for the existence of the lockfile, and if it does
exist to simply remove it.
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#!/bin/sh
filename=/var/path/to/filename.lock
# test for lockfile
if [ -e "$filename" ]
rm -f $filename
fi
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now, just chmod this little guy 755 and set a cron job to run twice an
hour and that should take care of the problem of the lingering lockfile.
--
Mark
a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR
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