procmail lockfile utility and NFS
G'day, Has anyone used the lockfile utility that ships with procmail in conjunction with NFS mounted directories? The lockfile man page states that "Lockfile is NFS-resistant and eight-bit clean." cheers, Rob ...
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Quick-and-dirty way to ensure only one instance of a shell script is running at a time
What's a quick-and-dirty way to make sure that only one instance of a shell script is running at a given time? ...
Python: module for creating PID-based lockfile?
I'm writing a Python script that may or may not (depending on a bunch of things) run for a long time, and I'd like to make sure that multiple instances (started via cron) don't step on each others toes. The logical way to do this seems to be a PID-based lockfile… But I don't want to re-invent the wheel if there is already code to do this...
Why my program creates empty .lck files?
I am trying to use Java Logger. I get my logger file (name.log) with the content I wish but I also get empty name.log.lck file. Why this file appears and how I can remove this behavior. Thank you in advance. ...
Delphi Using LockFile on windows 7 64.
Hi All. I have found that if you open a file that resides on 32 bit server in a share folder from a 64 bit windows 7 machine, read it, lock it and then open it again. When you close all open handles the file actually remains open. The exact steps are: Place a file that is between 7000 and 10000 bytes long in a shared folder on a 32 ...