-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Noyes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:29, Mike Noyes wrote: >> The easiest one I've seen so far is here: >> >> http://moongroup.com/pipermail/shell.scripting/2005-February/009396.html > > Charles, > Ugh! They went on for quite a while on that thread. I'm not sure what > discussed method was finally used.. > > http://moongroup.com/pipermail/shell.scripting/2005-February/thread.html#9396
The reason they're not just using the -l switch to lockfile is the person who started the thread is wanting to do something different in the script if a stale lockfile is found: http://moongroup.com/pipermail/shell.scripting/2005-February/009410.html If you're concerned about this, we'd need to jump through the same hoops they're mentioning in the thread. Personally, I think one of the two "easy" options would work for us: 1) No automatic stale lockfile removal. If anything goes wrong with the script and a lockfile is left on the system, an administrator will have to login, check things out, and clear the lockfile. 2) Lockfile automatically removed after some (long compared to document creation) time. This would handle the cases where the script died for some reason and didn't remove the lockfile, but could potentially cause problems if a previous script is still running for whatever reason. I'd probably suggest going with #1 for now...the worst case is documents don't get automatically generated for a while if an admin doesn't look at things immediately. I mentioned the -l switch to lockfile since I wasn't sure if your removal of the lockfile when trying to grab it failed was unintentional, or an attempt at forcibly grabbing it. - -- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEK9HvLywbqEHdNFwRApecAJsH+W6VB1pyGru3dccS0KQlaqTeEQCg9ML1 /zoeA1HitqLYetHhzW3Wn3M= =1agv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
